GeoCities is Dead. Long Live GeoCities
For many people who came to the Internet in the mid to late 1990s, the personal webpage craze was only just beginning and there were a handful of stalwart providers that gave budding Internet users all the room they needed to have garish colour schemes, poorly designed animated gifs and all the flashing under construction signs they could find.
Tripod, Angelfire, and GeoCities were an effective triumvirate of free and nearly free web space providers, encouraging the formation and collection of communities long before the emergence of LiveJournal, MySpace, Blogspot, Facebook, and any number of other online communities that now litter the web.
Part of that history is going to disappear forever before the end of the year, with Yahoo! set to close down GeoCities completely before the end of 2009. With the yet-to-be-dated closure coming up, Yahoo! have now stopped accepting new user accounts on the online community and will be notifying existing users of the various steps that they can take if they want to save their site when GeoCities finally closes.
One of the options that will be put forward is Yahoo!'s fee-based Web Hosting service, something which may not be acceptable to users who are accustomed to free consumer level services. Angelfire and Tripod continue to offer free services, and for users who wish to keep their sites alive on a part of Internet history, they provide an alternative that originates from the same timeframe as GeoCities did.
24 April 2009
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