The end of an Era: RIP Geocities
- By:Qwaider
- On:Friday, April 24, 2009
- In:Science & Technology
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Yahoo finally did it, after acquiring the "Facebook" of its time "Geocities" over 10 years ago for a whopping $4B. It has successfully managed to turn that to a waste land of sites riddled with Phish, malware and exploits.
It saddens me because I recall my very first site online back in 1996(?) hosted freely on Geocities.
Without Geocities, free web hosting, or services like free blogging pages that most of us are enjoying these days wouldn't have ever materialized into anything. Yes, that includes you on BlogSpot, Wordpress, Jeeran and any other platform free hosting platform