Do you care that Geocities are going away?
@morgandrake (2136)
United States
August 13, 2009 2:51pm CST
A few weeks ago, I recieved an email from Yahoo stating that Geocities (their free webhosting) is going to close in October. Basically, the notice was trying to sell me Yahoo hosting at eight dollars a month.
Now, I am not really interested in transfering my Geocities sites to Yahoo hosting. They get very little traffic. And they look like a blind monkey put them together (geocities site building tools had a lot to desire).
My blog gets more traffic, and serves the function that the website was supposed to (serve as a web presence for myself and the Golden Dawn lodge I belong to).
Therefore, I seen no reason to pony up the money to transfer my pages opver to Yahoo hosting. I have decided that I am just going to let them disappear.
So is there anyone that is going to care when Geocities completely disappears?
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
14 Aug 09
I had a small page but it was more just for playing around with than actually having a purpose.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
14 Aug 09
The first time I set up a page there, it was just goofing around. Later, I redesigned the page for a specific purpose (and it failed miserably in hindsight).
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
15 Aug 09
I dunno it was harder to set up than I thought & if you didn't work on it everyday you forgot how to do stuff.
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
14 Aug 09
-smacks head against desk- I totally forgot about my geocities website that I had set up back in 2002 and now have no clue how to find it since I've changed ISPs and emails numerous times since then. I don't even remember what all I had on it. Have no clue why I had completely forgotten about it but I remember having fun setting it up. Guess I'm not gonna care about Geocities once they are gone since I forgot all about it years ago.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
14 Aug 09
It was fun setting it up the first time. It was the first site I set up. But since then I have discovered much better ways to do things. Geocities is quite frustrating compared to the tools that I am using with the Office Live site (the lodge's stie). Of course, that is one of the reasons I think Geocities is disappearing; all the competition has better tools to do the same thing.
I have copies of all the pages I had up, even if some of them are only Pdfs. The trick would be finding them.
Myself, I still using the same two email addresses that I started out with eight years ago. I don't switch providers because it is just too much work to update everything.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
16 Aug 09
not really..but i have a few friends that are bumming about having to switch.
one of my friends has been locked out of her geocities site for over a year-she lost her password,and they said they can't help her.that alone made me not want to go with them.
@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
14 Aug 09
Well, in my case, my blog within the first couple of weeks was doing a better job than my geocities website. That was one of the big reasons, I just simply quit updating my geocities site.
@linkmaster111 (74)
• United States
14 Aug 09
I've never used geocities myself, but a few of the sites that I have been on have been hosted by geocities and it will be sad to see them go.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I care. Or I should say I did care. I have a family web site that I made on there a few years back. I had no idea until I saw this post that they are closing their free service (although I'm not surprised). Thanks to you I made sure to save any pages and pictures I want to keep. That way I won't lose them completely when yahoo closes geocities down for good. 
@anewlevel (173)
• United States
10 Nov 09
Yes, I am sad to see Geocities go. When I first started using the internet, I created my first website using Geocities because that's the site most of the people I knew used. I liked how easy it was to create pages with Geocities. Mainly I used my site to share photos I had scanned and also to display some of my creative writing. I kept my pages relatively unchanged over all the years they were up, though I did add a few things to it from time to time. It was always nice to look at my Geocities site because it was like going back in time; it reminded me of my first year or two as an internet user. Now that Geocities is gone I feel like part of my history is gone. Fortunately, they gave us plenty of time to back up all our files before they took Geocities down. I won't be using Yahoo hosting because I think they charge too much.
@littleowl (7157)
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13 Aug 09
I knew nothing about it, but if that is what they are going to do it really doesn't worry me at all let them do it and see what happens from thereon...LoLo
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Aug 09
i thought it had already been stopped years ago.. i remember i used to use it in like 99 but not since then so i guess i wont miss it
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@bluesinjid (658)
• Canada
14 Aug 09
Well, it sure is sad to see such a historical part of a hosting company, and one of the oldest free hosting at its time come to an end. Basically, when Yahoo bought it, they were trying to find a way to monetize it,as they couldn't afford to give out free hosting to so many people. I guess they couldn't find a way to make it profitable, so now they will close it and recommend people for their paid hosting, which I really think is not really great.
There are other sites out there that have free hosting now, such as the popular Wordpress and Blogger, and I am sure people will find alternatives, but again ,it is sad to see a piece of history disappear.
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