Music4y2k

Music4y2k

NWO 2010

GeoCities (you know, that aging homepage hosting service that you only ever arrived at by accident) is getting ready to shut its doors. The pioneering service, which eventually sold out to Yahoo! and slowly slipped into complete irrelevance, became popular in the 90's during the early dot-com boom for allowing geeks to quickly and easily create their own basic Web sites.

Yahoo ! very quietly announced the demise of the all-but-forgotten service via the GeoCities' help page . GeoCities has stopped signing up new customers (was there anyone actually still signing up for this service?) and, by the end of the year, will shut down entirely. At that point, users' pages will no longer be accessible online.

News of the closing has been greeted with a collective shrug, and a little ironic nostalgia , by the Interwebs. PC World summed it up pretty nicely with the headline: " So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed ." For its part, BetaNews waxed nostalgic over GeoCities's less-than-professional appearance, accurately describing most of the pages on the service as "Eye-searing."

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