The Portrait Forums :: Portrait Magazine Forums :: The Portrait Chat Forum :: Geocities has closed. Author Topic: Geocities has closed. (Read 45 times) Kat School Principal member is offline I know the heart of life is good Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 9,712 Location: New Zealand Karma: 273 Geocities has closed. « Thread Started on Nov 4, 2009, 1:36am » This made me kind of sad. My first ever site was a geocities page. Yahoo! GeoCities, the free web site service offering tools for early Internet surfers to publish their own web pages, closed its doors. In the 1990s, when most hosting options were extremely expensive, GeoCities gave anyone the opportunity to build a custom web page for free and secure a small amount of virtual storage to keep their pictures and documents. Indeed, GeoCities’s free hosting space was the home for thousands of personal web pages and became perhaps the most significant virtual museum in the recent history. According to Alexa, GeoCities is still among the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the Web. In 1999, the network was the third most-visited web site on the Internet. Now, after locking its doors, millions of pages have been taken offline. Early this week, Yahoo stated in an announcement: "…we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways. Beginning on October 26, 2009, you will no longer be able to use GeoCities to maintain a free presence online - but we’re excited about the other services we have designed to help you connect with friends and family and share your activities and interests.” GeoCities discontinued accepting new registrations earlier this year. Only existing users could update their pages before the actual closure. During that period, they were offered to move their sites to Yahoo's web hosting service, costing $4.99 per month for the first year. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "Back then I would have sworn I was going to marry him... 'til I realized some bigger dreams of mine." kellygreen49 High School Junior member is offline Ban The Boredom/Health columnist Joined: Jun 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 325 Location: Missouri Karma: 1 Re: Geocities has closed. « Reply #1 on Nov 4, 2009, 6:49pm » Awww. Geocities was my first -only- website too! It was a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants website. Haha. I'd get so excited if someone signed my guest book. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged -Kelly *Graphic by Bee* xsocks High School Freshman member is offline kicking banana tree Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Female Posts: 12 Karma: 0 Re: Geocities has closed. « Reply #2 on Nov 5, 2009, 5:09pm » That is sad. Hopefully, I can still see the good stuff on the wayback machine... Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged ~Jes dee. Rockstar member is offline Joined: Jul 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 2,688 Location: Oklahoma, USA Karma: 175 Re: Geocities has closed. « Reply #3 on Nov 5, 2009, 6:34pm » it's so weird cause i used to have my marykate and ashley fansites on there lol Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged VERONICASOBSESSED I feel so untouched and i want you so much that I just can't resist you <3 Forum Jump--------------------» Home--------------------» Portrait Magazine Forums--------------------- The Portrait Chat Forum --- Awards/Challenges Forum- Square Eyes Forum- Music Madness Forum- Fashion Closet/Beauty 101 Forum- Just for Fun Forum- Graphics/Siggys Forum --- Graphics Portfolios --- Request forum --- Tutorials/Resources forum- Readers Anonymous Forum- Introductions, Please! --- Portrait Peeps Picture/Video Forum --- Website Plugging Forum- Celeb News/Discussion Forum