Yahoo! announced last week that it will be closing GeoCities later this year after 10 long years of providing free web hosting. Yahoo! GeoCities is no longer allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts. Yahoo! GeoCities will provide more details about its closing and how to save your site data, if you have any, this summer. More information is available at Yahoo! Help Center.
It was with Yahoo! GeoCities when I first experimented designing websites. I created my first homepage in 1999 with GeoCities which was just acquired by Yahoo! then. I remember having that long url and I was never able to memorize it. Despite that, I created four more homepages for different purposes.
The five homepages that I created with Yahoo! GeoCities are still existing. They will exist until Yahoo! GeoCities closes down all GeoCities accounts and websites later this year. I still maintain the websites at Yahoo! GeoCities but I have not been updating them for quite a long time since I bought my own domain names. I already have removed some of the pages and redirected them to the new domain names. Some of the pages, instead of redirecting them, I just put a note about the new domain name.
I actually just maintain the websites as they rank high at Google if you search using the keywords “pandan antique”. It used to rank high with the keyword “pandan” but ever since I stopped updating them, the rank at Google also changed. You will still see those homepages only at the second page and once in a while at the first page if you search Google using the keyword “pandan”. But if the keywords are “pandan antique” they are still on top of the first page.
I have not included my Yahoo! GeoCities free-hosted homepages in this site but when I heard that Yahoo! GeoCities will be closing, I might as well include them here and just put a note later that they are offline once they are not viewable anymore. They are very simple and all were designed using HTML. Remember, its free-hosting at Yahoo! GeoCities. š