QUOTE (Chattabox @ Apr 29 2009, 01:12 PM) Geocities has closed and is no longer accepting new members, and will close completely later this year. It's an interesting history for Yahoo and Geocities. As reported by the BBC, Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999, for close to $3.6 billion. That means over 10 years Geocities ended up costing Yahoo $360 million per year. Thats almost a million dollars every day for the last ten years. Thats a lot of money. Plus that doesn't inclu... read more.
There are a few good points to Geocities webhosting: It is free There is no spyware/adware as far as I know They give you a site builder You are signed up if you have a Yahoo account
This is what I don't like about Geocities: The ads are annoying The sites you create in site builder are very unprofessional You don't get much space You don't get much bandwidth
What do you like about Geocities? What didn't you like about Geocities? Did you have a different experience? If so I would like to hear it.
I hate the name, it's so cheap I've never been hosted with them, they look shabby and the websites that ARE hosted by geocities are mostly shabby. I lke any other free host most than this is.. It just looks wrong.
The adverts there annoy me the most because they appear in everypage.. I mean what if you want IFRAMES... you can't exactly do anything. PLUS all the good names are probably taken because soo many people are hosted with them.
well back in the days before most of you all where able to pick up a computer, geocities was a pretty sweet set up, but after awhile people websites started closing down, people complaining about the service, and then the ads.
Of course, common sense all tells us that no member here would ever degrade to Geocities after being hosted here. Don't you agree?
This is true but the way I see it if you have friends who hate forum posting even though it takes almost no time out of your day and its actually an enjoyable part of your day that maby seeing information about another host might help you find your friend hosting.
Probably every webmasters who had managed to come here know about webhosting specially one like Geocities as much as you know.
But let's hope it is still useful since others don't bother to write about what most of us have known it in reality. I think you can include freeservers with geocities. The good point of freeservers is that it is very search engine friendly.. which geocities will not match... though annoying pop-ups and endless ads add upto the hate list.
I was on Geocities before the ads became annoying. It actually wasn't that bad, but I agree - most sites on geocities are horrible. They're great for beginners but past that, eh...you'll need a new host.
I used Geocities for the first site I ever built without a page builder or Frontpage. I would still be using Geocities if they hadn't gone and made a ad that blocks 1/4th of your site.
I never ran out of space for files, but my bandwidth was drained up quickly. I would always upload stuff onto my site for future referrences, and when I went to go and get the files again... I wouldn't be able to access my site and I'd have to try get into File Manager.
I agree that it is great for beginners, especially since most of them don't really care about the ads or have to worry about bandwidth. Most Geocties sites don't have a lot of visiters coming to the site unless it's been forgotten and really old.
Geocities has closed and is no longer accepting new members, and will close completely later this year. It's an interesting history for Yahoo and Geocities. As reported by the BBC, Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999, for close to $3.6 billion. That means over 10 years Geocities ended up costing Yahoo $360 million per year. Thats almost a million dollars every day for the last ten years. Thats a lot of money. Plus that doesn't include the cost of hosting and supporting all those free web sites. It doesn't seem like a good way for Yahoo to have invested their money. On the face of it this was a very bad investment decision. They could have just set up their own free web hosting service using the Yahoo branding. Although Yahoo was not the only company to make disastrous business decisions around the dot com boom year of 2000.
I never had a Geocities web site myself. Although I remember when Geociies was all the rage, and every tech savvy person had a web site on Geocities. It was like the MySpace and Facebook of its day. I do recall logging on to Geocities and just thinking it wasn't that interesting. It was very similar to Tripod. Many of the sites were true personal hobby sites, with somtimes unusual and (sometimes) fascinating topics from model railways to collections of old Apple Macs. There was something innocent and honest about both Geocities and Tripod. They were places were people unashamedly showed off their interests, creatvitity and even sometimes eccentricities. It was like a patchwork quilt of life, a keyhole through which you had a window on someone elses world.
Because of musical MySpace pages, Facebook friends and LinkedIn lovers we are all now far too sophisticated for personal hobby sites. That is unless they are about the hot new tech gadget, coolest iPhone app or latest Google gadget. I for one will mourn the passing of the homebrew, "make do and mend", honest and intriguing, internet hotch potch, that was Geocities. May she rest in peace.
Yea I had also heard that they was closing it's doors. the very 1st page I ever had, I had it hosted there for maybe 2 weeks before finding another site that was less of a pop up problem. Is a little suprising though that Yahell is closing it though. Maybe they have found something better or are revamping it and just are keeping it on the QT. who know?
As many people that use geocities you would think that they, yahoo would do something. Oh well thank goodness for trap17
Geocities has closed and is no longer accepting new members, and will close completely later this year. It's an interesting history for Yahoo and Geocities. As reported by the BBC, Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999, for close to $3.6 billion. That means over 10 years Geocities ended up costing Yahoo $360 million per year. Thats almost a million dollars every day for the last ten years. Thats a lot of money. Plus that doesn't include the cost of hosting and supporting all those free web sites. It doesn't seem like a good way for Yahoo to have invested their money. On the face of it this was a very bad investment decision. They could have just set up their own free web hosting service using the Yahoo branding. Although Yahoo was not the only company to make disastrous business decisions around the dot com boom year of 2000.
I never had a Geocities web site myself. Although I remember when Geociies was all the rage, and every tech savvy person had a web site on Geocities. It was like the MySpace and Facebook of its day. I do recall logging on to Geocities and just thinking it wasn't that interesting. It was very similar to Tripod. Many of the sites were true personal hobby sites, with somtimes unusual and (sometimes) fascinating topics from model railways to collections of old Apple Macs. There was something innocent and honest about both Geocities and Tripod. They were places were people unashamedly showed off their interests, creatvitity and even sometimes eccentricities. It was like a patchwork quilt of life, a keyhole through which you had a window on someone elses world.
Because of musical MySpace pages, Facebook friends and LinkedIn lovers we are all now far too sophisticated for personal hobby sites. That is unless they are about the hot new tech gadget, coolest iPhone app or latest Google gadget. I for one will mourn the passing of the homebrew, "make do and mend", honest and intriguing, internet hotch potch, that was Geocities. May she rest in peace.
Horrible.... one word fits all....lol I had some bad experiences with geocities.
Back in the win98 days GeoCities was pretty good and useful fot personal web sites. The GeoCities add panel is something that degrades the users site. I used to like the communities and the ability to browse subjects for other users pages.
Now a warning about registering with GeoCities.
Do not use your main email address to register for a site for Geocities and I would recommend using a disposable email address. About a year ago I played around with a Geocities website and found out that when you register your email with them that it is available for spammers web spiders that lift your email address from the registry. The end result was that the email address I registered with the Geocities web site recieved up to 1,000 spam mails a day. It got to the point where I had to delete that email address.
Okay, so I use SBC Yahoo DSL...well, now it's called AT&T Yahoo DSL, and the price was
around...$24.99, not sure/month. And then, all of a sudden, when I received a bill, it said $59.99.
Could it be because of some websites with some huge spyware that I accidently downloaded? Could it
really be that bad. I mean, I've heard of the internet calling or something like that, but
raising your bill? Ridiculous, if this is because the company made it more expensive, I am surely
going to switch to roadrunner high-speed. :/ But somehow, I doubt it spiked this high, there....
Now I have had SBC Yahoo! DSL for a year now and I previously had it for a year so I have had it for
2 years total. Now I really like the dsl and it fast and best of all cheap! Now you can get it for
12.99 a month and you get 1.5 mbps dsl! The only thing I really hate is the browser. The browser is
really aweful, it locks up and sometimes doesn't show my favorites. Thats a really nice thing
about yahoo. They save your favorites so if you have to reformat your pc you still have your
favorites. Overall I would say yahoo is pretty good because I can always use internet ....
I had yahoo since the beginning of time, or at least it seems like it. Along time ago, I set up My
Yahoo, but rarely used it. I like the customization and built in features. I recently started
using the briefcase, and I think I like it. I just want to know what others think of this
attachment to my yahoo. I think it very useful myself, as I tend to be on a bunch of different
computers all of the time. I can never remember to carry my flash drive with me, and they give you
like 30MB which is more than enough for a simple briefcase. I have never used a service like ....
