’90s online networking icon GeoCities is closing down, Yahoo reveals
April 23, 2009 at 12:49 pm by Wayne Garcia
From Mashable:
Before Twitter, before Facebook (Facebook reviews), before MySpace (MySpace reviews) – heck, even before Friendster (Friendster reviews), there was a service known as GeoCities. For those who grew up on the Net in the 90s, it was about as close as you get to what we know today as social networks. It was essentially an organization of like-minded user-created homepages in different topical communities like sports, entertainment, and tech.
Yahoo bought the company near the peak of the dotcom bubble for more than $3 billion, which, along with the rise of alternative services, quickly spelled the end of GeoCities’ prominence. Today, it appears that the end of GeoCities is being made official, as Yahoo has closed the service to new accounts and posted an FAQ with some details as to how the shutdown will go.
