The end of an era. GeoCities closes
The world's first massive free hosting, the legendary GeoCities , finally, officially closed. Registration of new accounts has already been stopped, and by the end of the year all pages that are posted on GeoCities will be deleted .
During the summer, Yahoo will finally decide on the terms and inform all site owners the details of this procedure. Alternatively, they are offered a paid Yahoo! Web Hosting . There will be no free hosting on Yahoo anymore.
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Yes, it is meaningless, because the entire audience of such services went on free blog platforms and social networks. Home pages no one else does.
GeoCities was not only the first mass free hosting, but also the first real social network on the Internet, which was well ahead of its time and appeared long before MySpace and Facebook. Following the model of GeoCities, in the beginning of 2000, the service was made to Narod.ru , which was then completely given to Yandex .
It should be noted that the GeoCities audience, although it is decreasing by 24% per year, is now 11.5 million people per month (this is only the American audience), that is, GeoCities has the potential to generate some kind of income. It is possible that there will still be people willing to buy this half-dead service for some symbolic amount (at least for a box of beer ) before closing.
Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $ 2.87 billion.
During the summer, Yahoo will finally decide on the terms and inform all site owners the details of this procedure. Alternatively, they are offered a paid Yahoo! Web Hosting . There will be no free hosting on Yahoo anymore.
')
Yes, it is meaningless, because the entire audience of such services went on free blog platforms and social networks. Home pages no one else does.
GeoCities was not only the first mass free hosting, but also the first real social network on the Internet, which was well ahead of its time and appeared long before MySpace and Facebook. Following the model of GeoCities, in the beginning of 2000, the service was made to Narod.ru , which was then completely given to Yandex .
It should be noted that the GeoCities audience, although it is decreasing by 24% per year, is now 11.5 million people per month (this is only the American audience), that is, GeoCities has the potential to generate some kind of income. It is possible that there will still be people willing to buy this half-dead service for some symbolic amount (at least for a box of beer ) before closing.
Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $ 2.87 billion.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/58164/
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