Comments on: Yahoo Closes Geocities – The Beginning of the End

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:07:51 +0000

Christopher – Yeah, very first.

Nick Phillips – Yup, the only constant thing in life is change, and the taste of Kilkenny.

cicak – Well, there’s only one Google. Yahoo actually gave birth to Google. The son beating the father.

Cyril Dason – I only used for a short period of time and then gave up, though I remember an ad or two, but no more.

By: Cyril Dason

Cyril Dason — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:24:43 +0000

I used to have my own geocities website.. but its thousands of ads on it pushed me away.

By: cicak

cicak — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:17:13 +0000

Why don’t Yahoo be a little bit creative and be more like Google. LOL.

I still use Yahoo Mail eventhough I find Gmail is not bad at all.
FlickR is a Yahoo thing. Blogspot is a Google thing. And many more

I guess they’re competing well. But then Yahoo 360 is going nowhere. It sucks.

By: Nick Phillips

Nick Phillips — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:01:54 +0000

I’m from that same era and I had my own homepage too. I can’t remember the address though. It’s sad to see it go …

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:02:04 +0000

yup…dat was one of the earliest ‘portal’ and if im not wrong, I think I also sign up a webpage too.

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:19:40 +0000

cicak – Yeah, I remember the old school design, and don’t remember the hourly counted bandwidth nor the Yahoo Ad – as I left Geocities 2 years after its launch. You do have time to download.

foongpc – Those days, it was the IN THING and there was not much of competition.

guong – I can’t remember my URL there either. I’ve no idea whether it still exist. Yeah, there was a limit to the total size. I think a mixture of blogs and social platforms destroyed Geocities.

Che-Cheh – Yeah, nobody uses them. A death of an internet pioneer.

Marf – I don’t know about these days as I used Geocities for 2 years, 1996 to 1998.

@dr3h – Yeah, I wish I could locate my homepage.

markiekadus – Yup, it’s an end of a product that dominated the internet at one point.

Pinknpurplelizard – LOL. You sound like a Barisan Nasional politician.

tekkaus – Agreed, it’s no longer relevant these days.

msians – I appreciated the use and remembered spending a lot of time designing my homepage. It was fun back then. I wonder if 10 years from now, blogspot ceases to exist.

By: msians

msians — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:32:48 +0000

my first website was there too… the “old schoolers” webmaster should know and appreciate them. for the new generations, it’s all about facebook and bloggers.com now.

By: tekkaus

tekkaus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:14:06 +0000

It is such a pity…but I think geocities is not relevant anymore. I used to have 1 too.

By: Pinknpurplelizard

Pinknpurplelizard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:53:38 +0000

Ah… Nostalgia. I used to use Geocities in the 90s.
Then… I switched to something else coz I have no sense of loyalty. LOL

By: markiekadus

markiekadus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:55:45 +0000

I used to host my first ever site at Geocities, and yes… can’t remember oredi my url That was the golden years of websites creation i think… 10 years… yah… it’s been a while…

Farewell Geocities… Although i don’t fully maximize it… wekekekeke

By: @dr3h

@dr3h — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:50:07 +0000

i have one too.. hehe.. tapi i have forgotten all about it.. What was my url again? forgot la.. well.. Farewell Geocities..

By: Marf

Marf — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:52:46 +0000

I won’t miss Geocities. Almost all the sites I’ve ever been to that were hosted on Geocities were highly annoying.

By: Che-Cheh

Che-Cheh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:43:25 +0000

I had one homepage there. Couldn’t remember the name now. I think it’s about time they close it coz nobody uses Geocities anymore.

By: guong

guong — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:40:40 +0000

I mean blog ‘killed’ Geocities

By: guong

guong — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:38:45 +0000

They are closing it? I did had a homepage there, can’t remember my URL..What I hate was the little space they provided for us to make a homepage, don’t remember, it was like 5MB (was it?) or something..

I think blog kills Geocities.

By: foongpc

foongpc — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:51:36 +0000

I heard about Geocities, but never bothered to have a homepage there!

By: cicak

cicak — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:29:41 +0000

“After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.”

Yes, I still have time

By: cicak

cicak — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:28:37 +0000

What? They closed Geocities?

I had lots of Geocities webpages (was hosted on Silicon Valley! LOL) and yes, i too had that ‘funny old-skool design’ on them. And almost all of my pages was uncompleted due to laziness and lame Internet connection.

I hate the hourly counted bandwidth and the annoying Yahoo ad. Alamak! I hope there’s still time for me to download all my old stuff.