In an aggressive attempt to shift consumers to paid services, Yahoo is telling GeoCities members that it will disable their Web sites if they exceed certain bandwidth limits. Yahoo sent notices to ...

Right now, you can download the bulk of Geocities in a single, giant 652GB file over BitTorrent. The seminal free web hosting site has been off the tubes since last year, when its owner, Yahoo, shut ...

NeoCities is the technological reincarnation of GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that gives users 10MB worth of space to develop any sort of website they want, using HTML, images, text, CSS, or ...

Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. As of this morning, a site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, ...

Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages –- ...

As you all know, my hubby is a Community Leader for Geocities. He just got this in his email today. Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! All the websites will be DELETED and CLOSED! They will be NO WARNING as ...

Yahoo's closure of its personal home page service comes as no surprise. Today, Internet self-expression is all about blogs and social networks. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Ten years after Yahoo! acquired GeoCities for a paltry $4 billion, the (in)famous free hosting site is being put to rest. It’s been a long time since I visited a Geocities site that wasn’t Free Your ...

Believe it or not, the webpage service Geocities is still alive—but not for long. Fifteen years after its original creation, Yahoo has announced that it will shut down the service later this year. An ...

David Bohnett on what sets the social web apart, how GeoCities handled hate speech, and the profound need to log off more often. Reading time 11 minutes Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. For many ...