Thanks to Yahoo, GeoCities, a popular Web-Site Hosting Provider, is Gone
After almost 15 years of being one of the most popular web-hosting providers available, GeoCities was shut down by Yahoo on October 26, 2009. One day later, every web-site using Geo Cities as its host were shut down as well.
Geo Cities was considered to be revolutionary based on how it allowed Internet users to host a web-site for free. Allowing users to create web-sites for free allowed a variety of people to create different types of web-sites for different purposes and the web-site hosting service grew in popularity. By 1998, Geo Cities had gone public and was considered one of the leaders in the Internet industry.
In 1999, Yahoo purchased Geo Cities for a $3 billion price tag, however, the move has been considered to be a mistake. Yahoo was never able to capitalize financially on having Geo Cities and could not figure out the right direction for the hosting service. As a result, Yahoo failed to make Geo Cities profitable.
As a result of shutting down Geo Cities, Yahoo is no longer offering free web-hosting services.
