Thank. Christ.

http://mashable.com/2009/04/23/geocities-shutdown/

I always wondered how the site had survived all these years. When I found it in ‘96, it was a pretty interesting idea, but for almost this entire millennium it has seemed like an astoundingly irrelevant place.

Back then, the internet was all optimism and animated GIFs. News portals and RSS feeds weren’t leaking from every server, so even rubbish fan sites had a modicum of value. Personally, I’m glad to see my own rubbish science fiction fansite finally disappear with GeoCities, since I lost access to the account years ago and was unable to delete it myself. This is, of course, in contrast to my current rubbish science fiction fansite.

You’ll be remembered, GeoCities, as the place where I learned HTML. But not JavaScript, PHP, SQL, or any of that really interesting stuff, because all you could do was HTML.

That was meant to be a dignified sign-off for GeoCities, but, like the service itself, it sorta went sour fast.