After Monday, countless homemade Web sites will no longer be live, and site owners will no longer be able to view their accounts and files. As of 10 am EDT, sites are still viewable; I just checked out the site I created back in high school for some Javascript nostalgia.
For those who are still attached to their sites, Yahoo is offering an upgrade to premium hosting. Users can keep their sites online for $4.99 a month. I invite everyone else to join me in a moment of silence for this dearly departed Web host.
Yahoo first announced plans to shut down Geocities in April. "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," the company said at the time.
The Oct. 26 shutdown date was announced in July.
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