Believe it or not, the webpage service Geocities is still alive—but not for long. Fifteen years after its original creation, Yahoo has announced that it will shut down the service later this year. An ...

On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on one of the Web’s original site-hosting services. It was an ignominious end—and some would say a fitting one.

David Bohnett on what sets the social web apart, how GeoCities handled hate speech, and the profound need to log off more often. Reading time 11 minutes Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the ...

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Yahoo's closure of its personal home page service comes as no surprise. Today, Internet self-expression is all about blogs and social networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

It was announced that " Yahoo! Geocities", which was developed as a service that anyone can easily create their own "home page" (website), will be terminated as of the end of March 2019. GeoCities ...

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old. GeoCities had suffered a long and ...

As you all know, my hubby is a Community Leader for Geocities. He just got this in his email today. Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! All the websites will be DELETED and CLOSED! They will be NO WARNING as ...

Yahoo Japan, the last enclave of GeoCities, is scrapping the beloved website-hosting service. In March 2019 -- 22 years after its original launch -- GeoCities will be extinct, according to Quartz.

On 9 July 2009, I received an e-mail message from Yahoo! GeoCities stating, “GeoCities is closing.” I received these because I have had, for many years, a simple ...

Yahoo is to close its personal web hosting site GeoCities later this year. In a statement, the firm says it will no longer be accepting new customers and will focus on helping "customers build new ...

“[W]ebsites and hosting services should not be ‘fads’ any more than forests and cities should be fads – they represent countless hours of writing, of editing, of thinking, of creating. They represent ...