Update: Wayback Machine also worked hard on archiving the content on Geocities. Check their archive here.
ReoCities: A project that was started to restore GeoCities
Yahoo shut down their GeoCities service a couple of days ago.
With this, we lost one of the most popular online brands of the 1990s.
ReoCities was a project started [...]
Yahoo Geocities shutting down tomorrow
Yahoo would turn off the plug on their Geocities web service which has enabled millions of users to host a website on the web for free.
The service began as Beverly Hills Internet way back in 1994. It was one of the first to offer free hosting space online for [...]
Yahoo shutting down Geocities on October 26 this year
Yahoo has now confirmed that Geocities would be closed down later this year.
The closing day is set on October 26.
Yahoo had already closed new accounts on this service. All existing sites hosted on Geocities would disappear in October.
The company is advising people hosting sites on [...]
Yahoo Gallery also shutting down
Yahoo continues to come out with more bad news for their users.
The latest is that they are now closing down yet another of their service named Yahoo Gallery.
Yahoo Gallery is not even out of Beta yet and it is already scheduled to shut down next month.
Yahoo said in a [...]
