GeoCities.com, the only webpage creation site on the internet (might have to double-check that but I’m pretty sure it’s the only one), is officially shutting down for good, taking with it literally dozens of kilobytes of off-centered webpages about how awesome Phantom Menace is going to be.
www.Geocities.com/sayitain’tso!!!!/alsowhatisthematrix?
GeoCities, once the Internet’s third most visited domain, will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history…
After a Yahoo buyout in 1999, the new management chose to make the URL structure even more complex. This era was quickly followed by both the dot-com bubble burst and the availability of affordable personal hosting, such as Yahoo’s own Web hosting. Neither bode well for GeoCities’ long-term viability.
That’s right, GeoCities was once the third most-visited website on the internet, behind Askjeeves.com and the Chinese-food-themed Mambo Number 5 parody, “Combo #5″, in that order.
Between GeoCities folding and Myspace ceasing to exist (I think), it’s been a rough couple years for customizable internet spaces. Guess we’ll all just have to make due with AudioGalaxy.
