Yahoo! GeoCities Japan has finally shut down as of March 31st 2019
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https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/
Could not find any English articles on this as of yet, but this was announced a few months back. Truly the end of an era.
Translated text from the site:
To Yahoo! Geocities Users
Thank you for always using Yahoo! Geocities.
Geocities was born in 1994 in the United States. The unique approach of creating a virtual city with a system that allows anyone to easily set up a website, and a website created by choosing a street name and street number, has quickly become one of the representative services of the early Internet.
Later, in 1997, GeoCities Japan Corporation was established. It has been operating as Yahoo! Geocities since 2000.
It has been 24 years since its birth in the United States, 21 years since its establishment in Japan, and 18 years since it became Yahoo! Geocities. GeoCities, which were provided in various countries, including the United States, ended in 2009, leaving only Japan's GeoCities. By having a lot of people make a homepage and having a lot of people look at it, it has been operating for a long time. Thank you very much.
We have made every effort to maintain a huge website created from the early days of the Internet to the present, but we decided to end the service at the end of March 2019.
The reason for the end of service can not be explained in a single word. As a result of comprehensive judgment on profitability and multiple issues related to technology for maintaining the system in the future, it was judged that further continuation is difficult. We apologize for the inconvenience, but I would appreciate your understanding.
I heard that the technology related websites created by Geocities are still helping many engineers. There are also home pages that are updated daily as well.
The personal website created in the late 1990s, including its appearance and design, is the Internet culture of that time itself. On Twitter, you will also find a tweet "The homepage you created in the past is still in Geocities, because it's black history and it's going to disappear soon." It was possible to delete websites that have not been updated for a long time, according to the rules, but it has not been easy to delete a page that may be needed by someone, and we have continued to leave as much as possible.
It is a pity that even the Internet-loving staff will lose the many heritage sites left on the Internet and the accumulation of information that is being accumulated today. The following describes alternative services and moving methods. We hope that as many sites as you move will continue to publish.
Thank you very much for choosing Yahoo! Geocities from among the many website creation services. All the staff are thankful.
We ended the service at the end of March 2019. Thank you for your many years of patronage.
https://s.yimg.jp/images/geo/contents/v1/images/closeInfo_img_secretEntrance.gif
That takes me back. I used GeoCities and Tripod(Lycos) for free web hosting over a decade ago.
