In the beginning of the Internet there was Geocities. A great little site that allow people to publish their own webpage and be part of an online community. Yes this was the dawn of social networking however crude it was. I myself never participated in it, but did stumble across lots of good information on people’s sites.
Yahoo! bought Geocities at the peak of the dotcom bubble for around $3 Billion. I hope it was worth it, because I always felt it wasn’t the same and in a downward slide sense then. Oh well, we’ll just cast off the web content of Geocities just like that damn dancing baby on Ally McBeal.
Original Article: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2009/04/geocities_shut_down_yahoo_90s_end_2009_web_10_internet_ftp_community_neighborhoods.php
