Geocities, Oh how I’ll Miss you – Dead at age 15

As TechCrunch is reporting, that Geocities, a famous 15 year old site where it’s members could build free websites is scheduled to be shut down on October 26th 2009, almost in time for Halloween.

It’s sad, my first ever website was hosted on Geocities, and fond memories exist there. It’s like watching a building in your home town getting demolished. Like watching them bulldoze a favorite park or an old high school hang out.

Users have been compiling all kinds of tribute pages to mark the death of such a monumental site.

It’s a sad day in the history of such a cool service. I think Yahoo’s making a huge mistake from several business fronts. Free websites are still a big business on the web for ad supported revenue, and with the domain age, amount of sites hosted and other reasons, Geocities certainly stands to cost YHOO more than it will gain by pulling the plug. There’s absolutely no question of that.

Say it’s in the name of progress, Go ahead, but it’s a sad day for the internet. I invite your comments as per usual, but seriously, I hold my hat close to my heart over this. It’s quite emotional to see such a cool old friend go…

Daniel J Deyette