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After nearly 10 years of faithful service, Geocities will close the doors on one of the web's most time-honored services. Geocities allowed the everyday person to create their own website and let their voice be heard. Soon the internet was inundated with terrible web graphics, horrific usability and flat out comical content ranging from the tame to the bizarre. But, it did spark many budding designers/writers/artists to explore the internet as a creative medium and for that it truly deserves a better fate than Yahoo's current plan to just delete it all.
Currently, Alexa has Geocities listed in the top 200 most visited websites. So, can it truly be more profitable to delete it all then to simply keep hosting everything and earn profit from Yahoo/Overture banner ads? Naturally, Yahoo attempted to have Geocities users upgrade to paid website hosting services starting at $5.00 and while many will begin shelling out the dough, I believe that the vast majority will not and allow their work to disappear, like dark text on a black background.
I am writing this blog in remembrance of the service that sparked the website movement. The first to allow the layman to have a little piece of the internet. With our Pentium-powered computers and 28.8k modems, we took over the internet. With our copy/paste javascript codes, we created astonishing designs. With our Geocities sitemaker software, we were able to let our voices be heard.
RIP Geocities. 1998-2009. GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE.
Alex worked on several successful e-commerce websites before joining the RB team. He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a Bachelor's in Math & Computer Science.
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