Tech: Good night Geocities, we won’t miss your crappy service
- GeoCities is survived by two cousins, Angelfire and Tripod, along with an uncle, Jeeves.
All three are believed to be terminally ill. - JR Raphael • In a PC World blog post on the demise of Geocities. You still remember it, right? It was a way that you could put yourself on the Internet for free with a giant ad on top. 15 years in, its owners, Yahoo, have chosen to pull the plug on the useless piece of junk they paid $4.7 billion for a decade ago. Mainly because, well, there are other places you can go to talk about yourself on the Internet. • source