Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
GeoCities shut down in 2009 and volunteers grabbed what they could
Yahoo paid $3.57 billion in stock for GeoCities in 1999, and ten years later it shut the US service down. Archive Team scrambled to download as much as they could before it went dark, which is a big part of why the 90s web still exists in any form.
7 sources · 52 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- What happened to all the GeoCities sites?
- Ended at
- Neocities
The Trail
- “what happened to geocities” (google.com)
- GeoCities (en.wikipedia.org)
the japanese version somehow lasted until 2019
- Archive Team (en.wikipedia.org)
founded in 2009, basically out of anger at companies deleting everyone's stuff
- Jason Scott (en.wikipedia.org)
- GifCities (gifcities.org)
internet archive search engine for geocities gifs. try 'under construction'
- Cameron (cameronsworld.net)
- Neocities (en.wikipedia.org)
a 2013 revival of the idea. free, handmade, weird
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