GeoCities Shutting Down For Good
It's the end of an era as the end is near for GeoCities.

Yahoo! today without warning updated its GeoCities page notifying visitors that new accounts are no longer available and that existing ones will be shut down by the end of the year.
“Later this year we will be closing all GeoCities accounts and web sites,” reads Yahoo!’s help section. “We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways.”
“We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer,” the company said.
Will Yahoo! be replacing GeoCities with another free website hosting service?
“No, Yahoo! does not offer another free hosting service. Instead we recommend our award-winning Yahoo! Web Hosting service, which includes a personalized domain name (such as widgetdesigns.com) and matching email, new site building tools, unlimited disk space and bandwidth, premium customer support, and more.”
It seems the internet has moved away from providing users with an open playground such as GeoCities and towards more structured, uniform systems such as MySpace.
Did you have a GeoCities website? Is it still online? If so, share it with us in the comments!
I dunno man, there really isn't anything better that you can move onto other than aspiring to be a pirate-ninja.
http://www.geocities.com/tsvondrashekmd/THOMASSTEWART.html
Signed
Me too. Oh well.
I've been keeping my friends geo site up for years by visiting it periodically... I told him a couple years after he thought it died that I was doing that, he was soo pissed. Guess he'll win in the end (he lost all ability to modify the site long ago)
There are better things than pirate-ninjas?
so true. i don't know what i would be doing now if it wasn't for Geocities. I was introduced to the concept of web development (however limited) by a highschool friend who made me a Geocities account in 97.
Even then hosting fees are so low now, if you really want to put up a website you can afford to pay at least like $8/mo for something ipowerweb.
I agree 100%
I DID have a Geocities website a long, long time ago. Just a home page that I think I wrote using Word 97 ... LOL
Anyway, fret not, people. Geocities may be gone, but there are a lot of free alternatives (some of them actually decent). Take a look at:
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