GeoCities is Dead

[razorsharp]

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Yahoo announced that it will shut down GeoCities, one of the company’s longer-running units, later in 2009. Yahoo purchased the service, which allows users to create their own Web pages, for $3.6 billion in 1999. In the intervening decade, however, the rise of sites such as Facebook and Twitter presented a more user-friendly alternative for consumers than coding a personal home page, and GeoCities found itself eclipsed.

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<p>[Yahoo</a> Demolishes GeoCities 10 Years, $3.6 Billion Later](<a href=“http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Yahoo-Demolishes-GeoCities-10-Years-36-Billion-Later-785579/]Yahoo”>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Yahoo-Demolishes-GeoCities-10-Years-36-Billion-Later-785579/)</p>

<p>Is anyone affected by this digital death?</p>

[aibarr]

<p>How sad. I was a Geocities Community Leader (Geocities had a user-run support system, and the help e-mails were answered by Community Leaders) shortly before Yahoo! bought Geocities and replaced us all with FAQ pages. I left shortly after. Still sad to see it go…</p>

[sueinphilly]

<p>that’s still not as stupid as the 5.7 BILLION Yahoo spent in 1999 to buy broadcast.com</p>

<p>Yahoo could vanish and nobody would notice, just like nobody cares that Netscape is dead</p>