Or has its doors closed by Yahoo, whichever. I made my first ever websites on Geocities, at the tail end of the 90s, teaching myself HTML and the value of free hosting. Even then my distaste of advertising was evident, because I figured out the CSS and Javascript which ran the ads in the top corner, and managed to prevent it from displaying. It was a sad little teenage boy’s website, full of nonsense and whatnot, but I’m still pretty proud of the eventual design I settled on. It looked pretty cool, and even had a neat little sliding clam-shell interface for navigation. I maintained that website for a few years, probably until I was about 16-17, and then did a couple of websites for my school’s Sixth Form. One of those almost got me expelled, but that’s a story for another time. I then discovered Blogger.com, where I kept a blog for a couple of years during my university times, and then almost two years ago I ended up on Tumblr, where I’m more than happy. So RIP Geocities, you were my (and many others’) introduction to the world of publishing myself online.
Geocities finally closes its doors.
