Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. As of this morning, a site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, ...

GeoCities once seemed to occupy an unassailable position on the web, so its recent demise contains important lessons about the nature of the medium, says Bruce Lawson. Once upon a time, long ago, ...

Right now, you can download the bulk of Geocities in a single, giant 652GB file over BitTorrent. The seminal free web-hosting site has been off the tubes since last year, when its owner, Yahoo, shut ...

As you all know, my hubby is a Community Leader for Geocities. He just got this in his email today. Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! All the websites will be DELETED and CLOSED! They will be NO WARNING as ...

Yahoo's closure of its personal home page service comes as no surprise. Today, Internet self-expression is all about blogs and social networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

On 9 July 2009, I received an e-mail message from Yahoo! GeoCities stating, “GeoCities is closing.” I received these because I have had, for many years, a simple ...

After killing off GeoCities last year, diehard Homesteaders will release a massive (and slightly unnecessary) 900GB torrent containing every single webpage ever hosted by the Yahoo-owned company. Just ...

This story was written by Joseph Tartakoff. During the company's earnings call Tuesday, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said that she had decided to focus on the properties that generated the most ...

When Yahoo! switched off the servers for GeoCities, the Web posting service, on Oct. 27, some 7 million of the Internet’s first websites went dark forever. The bulk of these were people’s personal ...

It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as ...

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On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on one of the Web’s original site-hosting services. It was an ignominious end—and some would say a fitting one.