Yahoo's closure of its personal home page service comes as no surprise. Today, Internet self-expression is all about blogs and social networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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As you all know, my hubby is a Community Leader for Geocities. He just got this in his email today. Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! All the websites will be DELETED and CLOSED! They will be NO WARNING as ...

The 1990s were exciting times for booting up personal computers. Dial-up modems connected millions of homes to the internet, often trying to corral its borderless stream of information with sanitized ...

David Bohnett on what sets the social web apart, how GeoCities handled hate speech, and the profound need to log off more often. Reading time 11 minutes Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the ...

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old. GeoCities had suffered a long and ...

On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on one of the Web’s original site-hosting services. It was an ignominious end—and some would say a fitting one.

Believe it or not, the internet used to feel a lot cozier. In the early days of the World Wide Web, as many of us called it back then, going online was like exploring the Wild West. In those days, ...