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Hi everyone,
I just found this out myself by reading another thread and then verifying the information. GeoCities will, later this summer, no longer host web sites. I'm guessing the 'free' ones. From what I read, Yahoo (who took over GeoCities a long time ago) will still have paid hosting available.
I've had a little site over there for years, since it was just GeoCities and not Yahoo/GeoCities. Back before they had all the obnoxious ads all over your web site.
When I found this out, I had a bad several minutes while I struggled to remember my log in and password, but then I finally got it. Now I can update that site with the information that GeoCities is closing up shop and my site will be moving ... anyone what to guess where?? 
Any way if you, or anyone you know, has a site on GeoCities do yourself (or them) a big favor, update the site with the GeoCities closing info and get your site up on another host ASAP -- with a forwarding link to the new host site until they finally close down. That way visitors to your GeoCities site can, hopefully, find your new site and bookmark it before Geo goes bye bye.
Just my 2 cents,
Chad
Never really understood what was so great about Geocities anyway. It worked for me/met my needs when I was 12 and made my first attempt at a webpage...but after that....nah 
| missdixy wrote: | | Never really understood what was so great about Geocities anyway. It worked for me/met my needs when I was 12 and made my first attempt at a webpage...but after that....nah |
Nice; I was there too. First angelfire, then geocities, and a couple other sites of the same time, until ultimately ending up at the far superior frihost 
er...does anyone remember that Frihost is a FREE WEBHOST?
Also advertising other hosting services is kinda frowned on here. 
| Vrythramax wrote: |
er...does anyone remember that Frihost is a FREE WEBHOST?
Also advertising other hosting services is kinda frowned on here. |
Wolf was trying to do other Frihosters who have Geocities Websites a favour I think. Remember free Websites were on offer long before Frihost started up 4 years ago. I was never that happy with my Geocities Website and that is how I eventually landed with Frihost. Possibly there are a great number of unhappy Geocities users who landed with Frihost that way and when we did we did not bother to delete our previous Websites. So Wolf's info is quite useful. I downloaded the one Website I had forgotten about, and saved it off-line, just in case I may need parts of it in the dizzy future.
@deanhills
That's kind of what I thought he was trying to do...help, or I would have simply locked the topic. 
| Vrythramax wrote: | @deanhills
That's kind of what I thought he was trying to do...help, or I would have simply locked the topic. |
Thanks ... would that have been your first lock-up since your return? 
I have started a thread in the Suggestions Forum for suggesting that since Geocities has bitten the dust that this may be an opportunity for Frihost to cash in? Some of the Geocities Websites were really good ones, started quite a long time ago, and the authors of the old Websites may also be potentially good contributors to the Frihost forums. 
| deanhills wrote: | Thanks ... would that have been your first lock-up since your return?
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Nope...This One Was, but thanks for asking. It was really only a matter of time. I had denied about a half a dozen hosting requests before locking that topic, I'm sure if I had looked around I could have found something to lock sooner.
Besides, it's not really advertising for another web host when it's going to shut down is it?
I remember the good ol' days when I first started my webpages on GeoCities... if nothing else, I would've like it to remain for nostalgic reasons. It's nice to see my progress from then to now. Hopefully kids these days will have another host they can turn to to get their web designing hobby going. Geocities was a great start for me, albeit not the greatest host in the world. But people need their sandboxes, and that's one of them.
| Insanity wrote: | | But people need their sandboxes, and that's one of them. |
That's exactly what mine was! When I did my first Website for a friend I wanted to play somewhere before I went for the real thing. AGES ago
I did notice the bitter death of GeoCities several weeks ago. I discovered GeoCities several days after I discovered this Internet thing I had my earliest website over there 9 or 10 years ago. Internet was not so popular those days and geeks were few and countable in my country.
I hooked up a plain website for my favourite football club (Arsenal FC). Their editor was the worst WYSIWYG ever, looked more like desktop publisher. I hated the dynamic ads and all the stuff they forced on my site. I was not that good in programming so I had a lot of trouble uploading Dennis Bergkamp's photos.
Later, I nuked that site and I went on other services before I finally landed on this professional FRIHOST.
| Quote: | | Geocities was a great start for me, albeit not the greatest host in the world. But people need their sandboxes, and that's one of them. |
Wisdom of wise!
I made my first site at Geocities back in 1997. It was decent up until several years ago when the ads got really intrusive. Once I started making more complicated and specifically laid out sites, the ads became a huge problem as they would ruin they layout. So after some hunting, I moved everything to here in 2005.
| eday2010 wrote: | | It was decent up until several years ago when the ads got really intrusive. Once I started making more complicated and specifically laid out sites, the ads became a huge problem as they would ruin they layout. |
My experience exactly as well. I also tried Lycos, but Tripod was much worse, and also not very stable. Frihost is great in every sense of the word. Except I found myself getting more into the Forums than the Website space. I'm keeping my Website space for back-up if I need to try out a design again one of these days, also it is a handy way for posting photos on the forum if I can't link them up with the Internet.
moved to websites
This move is part of rvec's big general chat cleanup
I liked it when I read about the end of Geocities. Finally all those old abandoned sites are going to vanish.
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