End of An Era for Early Websites
Oh, GeoCities. Once a bastion of the Internet, years ago, where a generous 15 MB of free space allowed users to create horrible-looking websites talking about themselves, maybe with big UNDER CONSTRUCTION jpegs everywhere, or one of those spinning green 3-D skull-and-crossbones.
No more are the awkward fanfiction sites or pages full of crappy DOOM maps or sites devoted to some online MMPORG clan or pages full of broken links to ROMs with a random Final Fantasy MIDI playing, or terrible teenage poetry.
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| A service that gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page is set to close. Yahoo-owned GeoCities once boasted millions of users and was the third most popular destination on the web. The free site has since fallen out of fashion with users, who have switched to social networks. Yahoo, which acquired the site for $3.57bn (£2.17bn) in 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, said sites would no longer be accessible from 26th October. |
No more are the awkward fanfiction sites or pages full of crappy DOOM maps or sites devoted to some online MMPORG clan or pages full of broken links to ROMs with a random Final Fantasy MIDI playing, or terrible teenage poetry.
