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Geocities Shuts Down

by Collin

Geocities Logo

With great sadness, one of the original hosting services of the web is shutting down tomorrow due to internal Yahoo! budget cuts.

Until the cutoff, you are free to download your site onto your computer. All data will be deleted after the cutoff, though.

The Archive Team is attempting to save as many pages as they can from Geocities before the lights go out on the service.

Mashable has a great article on this event: http://mashable.com/2009/10/25/geocities-closes-2/

XKCD has also altered their site to emulate a… badly well designed Geocities website (It nearly froze Firefox): http://xkcd.com/

XKCD murdering Firefox

XKCD murdering Firefox

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11 Responses to “Geocities Shuts Down”

  1. Collin Pruitt: Geocities Shuts Down | TuxWire : The Linux Blog says:
    October 26, 2009 at 2:37 AM

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  2. silner (silner) 's status on Monday, 26-Oct-09 10:15:17 UTC - Identi.ca says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:15 AM

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  3. jimcooncat says:
    October 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    I’m happy. They’ve been hosting an outdated website I wrote for years, including a resume. Having lost the login credentials, I could not get them to respond to me in my pleas to get back control of the site or get it deleted. Good riddance!

  4. Cholesterol Lady says:
    October 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM

    Finally!
    I had the same problem. There was no way to update the page. Now it will disappear. Forever.

  5. uberVU - social comments says:
    October 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

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  6. GeoCities cierra hoy: se nos va un clásico de Internet | Bitelia says:
    October 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    [...] Hellow’s Blog Leer más: Alojamiento Web, cierre de servicio, geocities, Servicios Web, sitios web, Yahoo! [...]

  7. It’s Colin Pruitt’s fault (SFW but NSFYE)* « I’m Just an Avatar says:
    October 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM

    [...] to Buğday?Brian Burger: "…just like looking at baby pictures of the internet."Collin Pruitt: Geocities Shuts DownMartin Owens: Treat Microsoft DifferentJonathan Jesse: Installing Ubuntu One on Kubuntu 9.10David E. [...]

  8. Bodyc says:
    October 26, 2009 at 3:20 PM

    Hello,
    Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
    Bodyc

  9. I remember GeoCities! « factorQ.net says:
    October 27, 2009 at 7:57 AM

    [...] by jamba on October 27, 2009 Yahoo Geocities is closing down.  I remember years ago, when my family first got a computer (around 1997 or [...]

  10. NovaJinx says:
    October 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    Heh, I bet my first homepage from my middle school years was still there too. With all the .gif-animations and lens flares. Good riddance indeed.

  11. GeoCities cierra oficialmente sus servicios | Globbos says:
    October 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM

    [...] GeoCities, fue el primer sitio de alojamiento de parecido a lo que son ahora las redes sociales (en realidad fue un proyecto 1.0 en toda medida, pero muy querido por sus miembros). Los usuarios con cuentas y webs en GeoCities podrán descargar todos sus documentos a su ordenador, antes de que todos los servicios y datos sean eliminados, como se menciona en Hellow’s Blog. [...]