Passing of the Old Guard

A giant of the early world wide web has passed into memory . . .

Geocities was a service that allowed users to set up and create their own personal websites. During the mid and late 1990's, Geocities was perhaps the main service for web surfers to create their own pages. Each Geocities account was assigned to a 'neighborhood' within Geocities based on the subject of the website. Example: 'Hollywood' designated websites related to entertainment. Users could even navigate within the neighborhoods by clicking on house icons that corresponded to a website (or just typing in the website's url to get there).

The interface and technology used by Geocities became a bit dated as 2000 rolled around, and Yahoo! acquired the service. Another death blow to Geocities was the growth of services such as MySpace and Facebook that required less maintenance to create and maintain a personal account.

Technology, like information, changes, and Geocities is now on the shelf with 8-tracks and BETA vcr's.

JWF