Yahoo Closes Free Hosting Site GeoCities

At its peak, GeoCities boasted millions of active accounts, but it has since fallen out of fashion. File photo

The Web service company Yahoo is to close its free personal web hosting site GeoCities later in 2009.

The closure of GeoCities spells the end of Yahoo's free hosting, although other services, such as e-mail accounts, remain unaffected, the BBC said.

Yahoo says that existing GeoCities accounts will remain active for now, although it stresses that users should start looking for alternative sites.

Yahoo bought GeoCities for GBP 3,57 B at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999. At its peak, GeoCities boasted millions of active accounts, but it has since fallen out of fashion, with users migrating to social networking sites.

"You need to give users tools to actually do things and make things simple, one of the reasons sites like Facebook and MySpace are so popular", Rupert Goodwins, editor of the ZDNet website, said.

 

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