Bye Bye GeoCities

According to BBC News, Yahoo is pulling the plug on Geocities. A Service Yahoo bought for $3.57bn at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999. The Free Website hosting service, Geocities, had to come to an end sooner or later.

I still remember back then, GeoCities is one of the service to go to if you want to have a website for yourself and don’t want to pay for it. Even though it’s a free web service, it’s easy to use interface still could rival some of the off-line web editing software to help you build a nice looking website.

I remembered sitting in front of the computer for days during those by-gone years where I’d sit down in front of the computer to work through bunch of HTML codes and JAVA scripts to put a site together, starting from a simple page to framed panels and so forth. Sure bring back some good as well as some bad memories.

I guess with the introduction of blogs, sites like GeoCities has started to feel old and a computer like Yahoo! with it’s aim of staying ahead of the competitors would want to bring in more relevant online applications and services. If you’re still a member of the site, it’s time to go in, look at what you used to put in, maybe salvage it into your current site. They’ve stopped their new user registration so there’s no point in looking at setting up an account with it. After all, with Blogspot and WordPress around with their simple to use platform. You wouldn’t want to sit in front of the computer punching in HTML codes just to have a site up again right?

For me, this would be my farewell to a site that had served me well before the appearance of blog services. Hopefully Yahoo! might re-cycle the name and use it to run a more current service that would attract the current market.

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