Yahoo's GeoCities finally closes its doors
GeoCities has finally closed its doors,
ending an era of free homepage service that many PC enthusiasts
remember from the mid-90s.
GeoCities, a Yahoo
subsidiary, hosted millions of free websites that were mainly built
from stock templates that allowed anyone to have a personal site for
blogs and pictures before Blogger and other similar services were
launched.
Earlier in the year, GeoCities stopped accepting new
site registrations, although GeoCities members had the ability to
modify their sites and save any relevant information from the cloud
to a PC or notebook.
“Yahoo continuously
evaluates and prioritizes our products and services in alignment
with business goals and our continued commitment to deliver the best
consumer and advertiser experiences,” a GeoCities spokesperson told
the L.A. Times. “The company's closing is “part of
our ongoing effort to prioritize our portfolio of products and
services in order to deliver the best products to
consumers.”
Members of GeoCities who want to keep their site
live will have the opportunity to do so by upgrading free membership
up to a paid membership for $4.99.
Tribute sites dedicated to
GeoCities are now popping up left and right on the internet, such as
the GeoCities Archive Project.
Yahoo has greatly struggled in
the past several years, with the company shutting almost 20 different
services and products in less than 12 months.
"Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment -- same piece of hardware -- paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be." -- Steve Ballmer
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