Yahoo! has permanently closed down their property, GeoCities, as of the 26th of October 2009.
The site, which was first created way back in the 1990’s, was one of the world’s oldest Internet neighbourhoods. Most new surfers built their space on sites like GeoCities and Tripod, marking their space on the Internet long before the arrival of social networks and social media profiles.
Yahoo! bought the site almost a decade ago, for a whopping $3.57billion, in stock.
All the data and information on GeoCities, which was stored on Yahoo! servers has been deleted. Some sites like the Internet Archive and the newly formed The Archive Team have tried to retrieve and store some of this data but have probably not managed to save all of it.
Yahoo! had stopped accepting new users for this site last April itself, as they were considering this move, and in June they announced that the site would be closed on the 26th of October 2009 for good.
A spokesperson for Yahoo! said that they will now “focus on helping [their] customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways”.
