Goodbye GeoCities: Yahoo Shuts Down GeoCities Today

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October 26, 2009

Goodbye GeoCities: Yahoo Shuts Down GeoCities Today

As pre-warned, Yahoo is closing the legendary GeoCities software today.

This is a serious thing on the search front. Let's not forget what Google's, JohnMu, Tweeted "Surprised at how many serious sites are hosted on GeoCities: get a domain name and move your stuff out NOW!" Now he would know the value of some of these GeoCities sites.

Yes, if you have not moved your content, images, videos and sites to a new platform - they will likely be forever gone and forgotten.

An end of an era

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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posted rustybrick in Other Yahoo! Topics at October 26, 2009 8:53 AM Comments (4)

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Hard to believe but I created my first website at Geocities when people who knew HTML were called geeks. Unfortunately a lot of people will be losing the data, although yahoo did their part of notifying users in advance. I will personally miss it.

Posted by Robert Write at October 26, 2009 12:20

So, we will loose the information on the geo-cities or it will it be redirected somewhere? I do not know whether it is co incidence or what...from yesterday i have been searching one of my old site in geocities.

Posted by Prarthana Sharma at October 26, 2009 13:42

The question is what will happen to Geocities if Yahoo will shut down it or Yahoo we create another search engine like Geocities.

Posted by No Name at October 27, 2009 03:12

My first ever website was on Geocities...

Black background, animated Gifs, the whole works :)

Posted by Colin at October 27, 2009 09:54