It is dead...

by Jesus Perez

Posted: 17 years ago 26 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

And I'm a little sad.

Goodbye Geocities after 15 years of free newbie hosting.

I knew ye well.
I remember ye flashy graphics.
And blinking text.
Goodbye ye old friend.
I didn't even know you were still around.

#dead

Michael Motley 17 years ago

i just saw this. its the end of an era. a cheezy low bandwith era with really bad graphics...but an era.
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Clyde Dennis 17 years ago

Wow, hadn't heard that. It's a little like hearing about the loss of an old friend as that's where I got my start online. R.I.P. old friend.
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- bgmacaw 17 years ago
  
  LinkoCities. It will be missed. I may have to put up a memorial site.
  
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cupajo 17 years ago

Wow, They also closed down MSN Groups. I was on there for a number of years. Nothing stays the same. Everything changes
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- Jeff Henshaw 17 years ago
  
  Wow, They also closed down MSN Groups. I was on there for a number of years. Nothing stays the same. Everything changes
  
  Yep, as the saying goes, "the only constant is change"!
  
  Jeff.
  
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jusmon 17 years ago

So did they ever actually make any money?
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- Jeff Henshaw 17 years ago
  
  So did they ever actually make any money?
  
  Evidently not - or not enough to justify the continuation of the "free" services.
  
  Bear in mind that that the majority of service providers are a business, they can only provide free services if these generate revenue in one form or another (such as advertising) or if the other areas of their business generate sufficient revenues to fund the free services.
  
  Think of the donations to charity made by large businesses - it gives them good publicity and helps good causes. They can only make donations however, if they are earning the money to enable them to do so.
  
  Just my thoughts,
  Jeff.
  
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TheCren 17 years ago

Wow! I didn't hear about this. It's like the great uncle I never talk to just died.
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- sbucciarel Banned 17 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Intrepreneur
  
  Type geocities into google and see the Adowrds ad;s taking advantage :-)
  
  lol ... I forgot they ever existed. The Adwords are hilarious ... Move those sites now before it's too late!!! Move them here!!!
  
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Frank Bruno 17 years ago

Wow totally forgot about them after all these years. lol

Frank Bruno
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- elle56 17 years ago
  
  Just like any software, it comes and goes. Yeah it's the end of an era. When I think about those years, it was really a long time ago! Better and more improved web-based applications emerged since then.
  
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Jesus Perez 17 years ago

What will they tell their web-ring members!

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SoundsGood 17 years ago

Wow, pretty strange. I had no idea they were still around.
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Mark Brian 17 years ago

Web 1.0 is the best!
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designfuschion

17 years ago

strange some geocities pages are still working?! what the?
ooh it says no NEW geocities accounts are no longer available.

so that means some sites are still around? or have i just found an anomaly?

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ildarius

17 years ago

Of the 12 remaining GeoCities users, only one was available for comment. "Holy crap!" said the user, a red-faced fellow named Strong Bad. "The scroll buttons and animated GIFs on that site were unbeatable."

Truly sad...

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Neil Morgan 17 years ago

The news has been around for a few weeks...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities

Cheers,

Neil
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BurgerBoy 17 years ago

I'm glad they closed it down. I had been getting anywhere from 25 - 50 spam emails from their members every day selling male enhancement products and $800 credit to join a casino.
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PaulRoddik 17 years ago

Good bye old friend. What an era, it has been!
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Ernie Lo 17 years ago

I had no idea they are still around. Damn it seems like it was ages ago lol they were popular.

Is it weird that I feel a little sad about this, even though I never even had a geocities acount
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Joseph Then 17 years ago

Do you think Geocities will suffer this fate if they are bought over by Google?
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NakMuay 17 years ago

Wow, little saddened. Can't help but have those feelings of nostalgia, as my first site ever was built at Geocities in 1993.
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ken_p 17 years ago

aawwwww.. i remember them fondly. with glittery graphics, and tinkerbells. goodbye geocities... so whats next from them?
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Zeus66 17 years ago

I don't believe it. Not a word. It's a myth, like links at FFA pages not getting you to the top of Google or traffic exchanges being a complete waste of time. You people are so easily duped. Geocities IS the World Wide Web. C'mon. Use your head.
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MeTellYou 17 years ago

Wow... that's craziness... I have never used them, but spending 5 billion on something that doesn't pay off is just mad...
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garyv 17 years ago

I had an account the year they started. I can remember it taking me hours to upload my cheesy graphics w/ my 14.4k modem. I also remember finding one of my first sites there just about a year ago. It cracked me up to see some of the crap I'd put on my webpages. Ahhh What a life! - You'll be missed! - not
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