GeoCities closes down today

The day has finally happened, GeoCities was shut down by Yahoo. Play that one last midi horn file for them.

Sadly it went down slightly unnoticed, many young web designers have once used this site to share with world what ever their hearts desired, it was the most significant virtual museum on the internet.

GeoCities allowed anyone to build a custom web page for free and reserved a small amount of virtual storage to keep pictures and documents.

It was perhaps the first mainstream example of an open, participatory and personal Internet.

Practically every facet of our culture was documented and thanks to search engines, easily accessible, now today all of those documents are disappeared. GeoCites stopped accepting new accounts  at the beginning of  this year. Existing users could continue to update their pages and save sites to a personal hard drive in advance of the impending closure. Yahoo is encouraging the relatively few remaining users to transition their accounts to the company’s $5-per-month Web hosting service.

Read more of the story at Latimes.com.