Geocities is dead.
Oct 27th, 2009 by Lee Shichi M.
Yahoo bought Geocities a while back(for several billion dollars[!]) and yesterday they pulled the plug. Oh sure, younger people may laugh at Geocities, and sure it was basic and filled with terrible animated gifs but short of buying webspace and coding your own page from the ground up there weren’t many options for making a personal webpage back then. Geocities was free webspace. Some say that Yahoo fucked up big time, they shelled out all that money then didn’t do anything with it. There wasn’t Myspace, Twitter, Facebook, or Wordpress back then. If you wanted to express yourself on the internet for free on dedicated webspace back in the day you went with Geocities(or Tripod or Angelfire, but Geocities was the hotness with its neighborhoods) Considering how many personal webpages are basically Myspace pages they missed out on a big opportunity to make a lot of money. I’d like to see if they saw a profit on paying 3 billion for a free hosting site…
Also think about how many dead hotlinks are on forums around the world now. Yeesh.
But on a jrock note this means that two of the more important websites regarding the history X are dead, I believe Jun’s site and that site with all the indies era bootlegs and merch documented were both on Geocities. Hope someone mirrored that stuff.
Add us on Twitter for updates and random musings
If someone’s got a link to the website, you can try to retrieve the info using the Wayback Machine (do a google search).
[Reply]