Goodbye Geocities.

Being perhaps, one of the first ways for the public to own their own webpage, Geocities will close this month, on October the 26th. With a almost non-existant user base, as people continue shifting towards Myspace and Facebook, this relic of the internet will finally be laid to rest.

Back in 1996, this company was purchased for an amazing $3.65 Billion, just before the dotcom bust. Now, with the rapid development of newer Social Networking sites such as Twitter, and Block Party, it was probably inevitable for Yahoo to close the antiquitated website. Archivists are working tirelessly to save the pages, and users have been advised to transfer their data elsewhere, but otherwise, the sites will be deleted off the Yahoo servers.  

Of course, there are a lot of places where one can shift their data to. For the majority of active  Geocities users, it’s probably going to drive them into the open arms of Blogspot, or a Wordpress powered blog.