A girl always remembers her first time: a tribute to GeoCitiesYahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities. Though most will say “good riddance” to the home of eye-searing fluro text, badly animated GIFs and never-ending Midi tunes, Ruth Brown looks back fondly on the site that popped her HTML cherry.
Geocities
RIP GeoCities: a loss for fluro text, animated GIFs and endless Midi files
Today, Yahoo is finally euthanising GeoCities, the original free, design-you-own webpage service where many netizens got their first taste of web mastery and popped their HTML cherries. Vale.
Yahoo pulls the plug on Geocities
Pioneers of free user-designed WYSIWYG sites, Geocities, is closing. Fans of flashing, fluro text and eye-searing backgrounds mourn.
