So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed – PC World
That headline pretty much says it all — who knew GeoCities was still alive? Raise your hand if you had a GeoCities page at one point (*raises hand*). It all went downhill when the brought pop-ups into the Web. The watermarks were dumb too. Do we even consider GeoCities Web 1.0?
The story has some other rich nuggets:
GeoCities is survived by two cousins, Angelfire and Tripod, along with an uncle, Jeeves. All three are believed to be terminally ill.
Of the 12 remaining GeoCities users, only one was available for comment. “Holy crap!” said the user, a red-faced fellow named Strong Bad. “The scroll buttons and animated GIFs on that site were unbeatable.”
The GeoCities site is expected to remain functional through midyear as a tribute to its life. Funeral arrangements are now pending.
Left unsaid is the curious decision by declining social network MySpace to emulate the look of GeoCities in its heydey.
H/T Steve Anderson on Facebook
