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In another step towards the future, a page on the past is closed: GeoCities is being shuttered today by Yahoo, which purchased the free website host in 1999. GeoCities circa 1996: In a move that puts more emphasis on the bottom line, Yahoo is nudging new customers to its paid hosting service. Of course, there’s another giant that still has a free, although not as well-known, hosting service : Google. RIP GeoCities.

GeoCities shares a story which only early internet know about. Geocities started in 1995 as an exclusive free webhosting service with subdomains: yourname.geocities.com . The service gained a lot of popularity and became the single largest free hosting service. In 1999, the beat of internet, Yahoo bought the company and continued the service flawlessly. But the popularity was on gradual decline because of better and more featureful options by other free service providers. But still, alot o

The web hosting service of Yahoo! Geocities is scheduled to close on 26 October 2009. The website would be deleted and its service would be no longer available to the public. In over a decade of its service, Geocities had become immensely popular among internet users and it also boasts of having a rich internet [...]

Yahoo deletes GeoCities today – bit-tech.net Yahoo is today carrying through on its promise to close self-hosting site Geocities , with around 10 terabytes of data being deleted. …. Memory Lane: XKCD Pays Tribute to GeoCities – Mashable (blog) This is how 90% of sites hosted on GeoCities looked like (and there were a lot of them, believe us), and yes, it’s all imprinted forever in the collective …. Good Bye Geocities – FTO (blog) Today Geocities will be no more

I am sure many of you have fond memories of GeoCities, the website hosting site. While most of the websites on it were eyesores, with far to many animations and blinking text, there is still hordes of gun information hosted there. Yahoo has announced that in exactly two weeks GeoCities will go offline. Please search through your bookmarks and post any high-quality GeoCities-hosted gun websites in the comments below . I will try to mirror as many of them as I can and host them on my serv