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posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the nostalgia-ain't-what-it-used-to-be dept.

The end of an era... c|net is reporting that GeoCities Dies in March 2019, and with it a Piece of Internet History :

The web-hosting site GeoCities was a paragon of this early internet era, but in March 2019 (almost 25 years after its creation in 1994) it'll cease to exist.

Yahoo Japan announced that it would shut down GeoCities.co.jp on March 31, 2019. Yahoo bought GeoCities in 1999 for $3.6 billion. In 2009 Yahoo shut down GeoCities in the US, but for some reason spared GeoCities Japan. When Yahoo shuts down GeoCities Japan in 2019, the life of GeoCities will finally come to an end.

If you want to go back and take a look at how things used to be, the Internet Archive in 2009 made a special effort to preserve GeoCities pages. There are links on that page to other efforts to preserve the US side of GeoCities.

If you have an account on SoylentNews, you can go into your preferences and select the "vomit" theme to bring a touch of GeoCities nostalgia to life right here!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:39AM (#743859)

    Considering how most software and websites function, I'm pretty sure they have maximum standards of competency. It used to be that the user getting work done was at least somewhere on the list of consideration, but these days the UI designs of most software products seem designed to ensure that you never get anything done without having to pay for support fixing what should have worked in the first place.

    I shouldn't have to read a book or take a class for every piece of software out there because some jack ass feels the need to ribbonify or otherwise smarten up a UI. The UI is something that should never really be a focus of attention as it's there to help work on the focus of attention.