Nathan

Technology, Web Sightings

Goodbye Geocities.

Geocities has been one of the more famous hosting sites for our webpages. I am fortunate to have been part of Geocities when it started. I remember creating a simple page for storage and sandbox for my initial attempts at web design.

Being a free service, it has surely helped a lot of us start our footprints on the web. It has been famous for organizing pages into “neighborhoods” and “suburbs,” making an online version of how communities look like, especially in the US.

Here’s a list of the neighborhoods and suburbs, c/o Blade Space. Some Examples are found below:

• Area51
• Soho
• Wallstreet
• SiliconValley

Geocities is now closed. All files and accounts are now deleted.

For nostalgia’s sake, Archive Team and Archive.org has been engaged in efforts to save and archive data from Geocities before it is put down. For some of us, especially those who have been attached to this service find it hard to let go. But to some, it simply marks an end. New services must continue to surface and be introduced, and life goes on. Geocities has certainly been part of Internet history, whether we have good or bad experiences and comments about it.

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