Yahoo! quietly stop all new registrations today for new customers on the free web hosting service, GeoCities. The service which opened in 1994, lasting almost 15 years, the company as decided to shut down all new registrations, where current accounts will be deactivated later in the year.Current accounts maybe pushed to purchase a hosting plan later in the future to continue to keep their account. Yahoo! posted this on their web site about why they are not accepting new customers:
"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year."
I can't recall the URL...geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hanger/????
how sad to see it go, man those were the days of horribly bad text to background colour scheme, animated gifs, page transition effects and midi music playing in the background!
poor geocities. ah, the fond memories i have of it.
how sad to see it go, man those were the days of horribly bad text to background colour scheme, animated gifs, page transition effects and midi music playing in the background!
took the words out of my mouth. Also Matt with the Frames.
Let's see, my first site also on geocities, the same stuff, + colored scrollbars
My first site was on angelfire LOL
My first site was on angelfire LOL
Yep, I never used GeoCities. My first site was on Freewebs.
My first site was on angelfire LOL
Yep, I never used GeoCities. My first site was on Freewebs.
I was on Freewebs to.
I don't even know PHP! D:
RIP Geocities.
My site is STILL partially on Geocities, or, what's left of it anyway. Not nearly like it used to be with 42 pages. Now, I think I have 4 very plain pages left. Site has been there since 1997.
Have to believe Yahoo themselves is the main reason they're closing it, due to lack of new registrations. That stupid full length ad they have going along the right hand side of everyones web site, that won't go away unless you click an external link, is probably what killed them.
If you used your own web building app and uploaded it to Geocities, you could make a decent web site, but not with Geocities web pge builder.
It hasn't been updated since 2001! and it's still there omg! bring back memories of the days of Macromedia Flash 4! LOL at all the grammars...I was in middle school back then
I thought I was the coolest 7th grader with my very own website.
I remember first using it at the beginning of secondary school, we'd all be building these pointless websites, using the PageBuilder
I later discovered hypermart and loved it because it supported FrontPage (which I've long since abandoned) and I was a lovely little sub-domain. Was nice not taking 10 minutes to type my URL, lol.
It's a sad day for many of us
T35
angelfire
freewebz
geocities
xoom
tripod
virtualave
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