After 15 long years we finally say goodbye to GeoCities forever.

GeoCities was an instant hit when it first opened in 1994. This service did more for the web than almost all other Internet services ever designed, and it played a major role in the web’s popularity. Many believe that the Internet wouldn’t have become so popular if it weren’t for GeoCities.

GeoCities simplified the process by helping people sidestep the complications of registering a domain and learning how to program HTML.

In 1999 Yahoo bought GeoCities for about $3 billion, which is probably one of the worst deals ever as the service is closing today, 26th October 2009.

You will no long be able to develop a free website using this service. Yahoo already announced that GeoCities is closing many months ago as the service is no longer helping its customers.

Yahoo is developing other services to allow users to build relationships online. Many are happy that GeoCities is gone because the service is “so 20th century” and we’re moving towards a new Internet with new services.

As they say, all good things must come to end!