It’s long overdue, but sad at the same time. Geocities is going to the big data center in the sky after more than a decade of serving us some of the worst web pages ever.

“”GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009,” the site said. “On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.”

PCMag talks about it here.

“If you’d like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you’ve posted online, please act now by downloading your files or upgrading to Yahoo! Web Hosting,” Yahoo said.

Yahoo is attempting to squeeze every penny they can out of it, but it’s unlikely that they’ll get much. Geocities turned into a web ghetto, full of spam websites, websites hosting malware & spyware, and abandoned pages. Thousands of Geocities pages were just left to rot away. Soon, they will all be gone. Yahoo is going to turn off the switch and raze the digital ghetto.

No word on whether or not Yahoo is going to purge the Geocities entries from its search results, since there are certain to be tens of thousands of now dead links to deal with.

RIP, Geocities.

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