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Friday, April 24th 2009

8:24 AM

Geocities To Shut Down, Millions of Geeky '90s Kids Get Nostalgic

Holy 12 years ago batman! This is all coming back to me like it was yesterday. I remember setting up a simple multi-page website on an obscure service called FreeYellow where I sold a Cable TV Descrambling Report for $5.95. I had about a dozen sales from it.

But I will always remember GeoCities. It was truly ahead of its time. As the years went by, I finally settled with Freewebs in 2001, now called simply Webs.com. I would like to get on BlueHost or SliceHost where I would have 100% control of the Web Server... but that's a project for a different day.

In short, there are a lot of great web hosts out there but GeoCities defined the '90s. They went together like bread and butter. Goodbye our dear GeoCities. R.I.P.

Story here.

- Brandonbert

1 Comment(s).

Posted by Shawn:

Geocities is well remembered. It seemed like almost everyone had a webpage on there loaded with tons of animated gifs to show how cool they were. I probably would have myself, but I had the luxury of working for an ISP back then, so I got my webspace that way.

Friday, April 24th 2009 @ 9:53 AM

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