GeoCities is a free web hosting service created in 1994.
| Geocities | |
|---|---|
| URL | geocities.com |
| Site type | web hosting |
| check in | for site owners discontinued |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Author | |
| Beginning of work | 1994 |
| End of work | 2009 |
| Current status | closed |
| Alexa Rating | |
Currently owned by Yahoo! ".
In 2009, Yahoo! ceased registration of new sites, October 26, 2009 the site was closed. The content of the service is estimated at 10 terabytes [2] .
After the service was closed in the USA and Canada, it remained available in Japan [3] , however, on March 31, 2019 it also closed [4] .
Etymology
The name of the GeoCities service ( geo is the universal root for phenomena grouped by geographic location, cities is the English city) is due to the fact that user sites were grouped by “virtual cities”, which were named on the basis of real-life cities.
The affiliation of a user's site to any “virtual city” depended on the subject matter of that user's site.
For example, a user site dedicated to computers was located in the “virtual city” of Silicon Valley; any user’s site dedicated to entertainment - in the "virtual city" of Hollywood; any user site dedicated to military technology was located in the Pentagon “virtual city”; and any user’s site dedicated to culture and art - in the "virtual city" of Athens.
About 50 such “virtual cities” existed in the GeoCities service.
Site Archives
- When the hosting was announced to be closed soon, the Internet Archive opened the GeoCities Special Collection 2009 page, where it was possible to request archiving of any of the many sites stored on GeoCities.
- Reocities is one of the incomplete mirrors of GeoCities.
- Oocities is another mirror of GeoCities.
- GeoCities also archives American enthusiast Jason Scott . The .torrent archive file is released.
Notes
- ↑ Alexa Internet - 1996.
- ↑ GeoCities closes forever // Neowin.net Archived July 31, 2013 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ geocities.co.jp (inaccessible link)
- ↑ https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html
Literature
- Sam Han. Web 2.0 - Routledge , 2012 .-- P. 65-66. - 144 p. - ISBN 1-136-99607-9 , 978-1-136-99607-8.
- Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice / Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers. - Routledge , 2013 .-- P. 33–42. - 320 p. - ISBN 1-135-38148-8 , 978-1-135-38148-6.
- 12.3. Case Study: The Deleted City // New Challenges for Data Design / David Bihanic. - Springer, 2014 .-- P. 223-232. - 447 p. - ISBN 1-447-16596-9 , 978-1-447-16596-5.