support

CONTACT: Tip | COMMENT: Respond | FOLLOW: | EMAIL: Newsletter

promo

Runaway Radio Screenings
WATCH: Mike McGuff's "Runaway Radio" 101 KLOL documentary - now streaming on Tubi!

Monday, April 27, 2009

RIP GeoCities

The place where I started learning basic HTML and web design in 1995 is going away:

Does anybody still use GeoCities? Actually, does anybody still remember GeoCities? If you do, then you will be very sorry to hear that it’s closing down. After GeoCities has taken a big traffic fall, Yahoo decided that it’s time to close the free web-hosting services after 10 years. GeoCities was founded in 1996, but in 1999 Yahoo bought it for about $2.87 billion. READ THE REST

Back then you could have found me at http://www.geocities.com/paris/1839 and http://www.geocities.com/paris/2807 (Neither exist anymore). I would have been in the Moody Library or Writing Center updating the sites with Murdock.  Strangely enough my friend's site who turned me on to the place is still there. There is still a photo of me from high school with a Coke can on my head at his site.






RELATED
Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

(Thanks Murdock!) CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here