http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/26/geoc … index.htmlhe flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes and omnipresent "Under Construction" signs of GeoCities are no more.
The personal Web-hosting site, launched in 1995 and owned by Yahoo Inc. since 1999, was to be shut down by Tuesday.
It's a move that will scrub from the Web a significant, albeit dated, piece of Internet history and the pages where millions first tried their hands at coding and designing.
GeoCities, in its heyday, was an online hub for Internet communities, connecting related pages through "web rings" that predated the massive footprints of MySpace and Facebook by nearly a decade.
For some, creating guest books, visitor counters and streaming HTML marquee tags on GeoCities was a stepping-off point into a new digital age.
I remember geocities. Anyone ever tried making one or does anyone but me remember them at all?
