A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy … Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online , @ricmac@mastodon.social...
Yahoo Japan announces it will shut down its GeoCities service in March 2019, 22 years after its launch, citing profitability and technological issues
built one of my first websites on GeoCities. Club Alec. http://twitter.com/... Aaron Levie / @levie : This is senseless. http://twitter.com/...
Tumblr launches ads on all users' blogs Thursday, will unveil revenue program for partners later in 2016; users can opt out of ads on their blogs
Ads on your blog by default, opt in to make $, opt out to hide them http://staff.tumblr.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If Tumblr's display ads are even half as ugly as its Dashboard ads, it's a...
How GeoCities Invented the Internet
A garish collection of home pages paved the way for blogging, social networks, and the rest of Web 2.0. — On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on ...
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated “under construction” signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps. — Instead...
Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999?
As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup-ten years ago, in A...
Marketers Need To Understand Discussion Before Joining It
Online social networks are here to stay. They've existed, in various forms, even before they were called social networks — Friendster, GeoCities, and even Yahoo Groups come to mind. People will alwa...