I guess as everyone, knows, Yahoo is shutting Geocities down. They are pulling the plug on their $3.57 billion dollar investment in GeoCities.

On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing GeoCities, and that it will no longer be accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts will remain active until 2009's end. Yahoo! encouraged users to upgrade their accounts to the fee-based Yahoo! Web Hosting service. With the closure of GeoCities, Yahoo! no longer offers free webpage hosting.

Here is the history of GeoCities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities

One important thing to take from that history is that at one point GeoCities was the 5th most popular destination on the internet. In 1997 GeoCities had signed up more than 1 million people and remember the over all traffic on the internet was not then what it is now. GeoCities once was a Phenomenon just as major as Facebook or Twitter is today.

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Yahoo is also changing its 360 blogging profile site, closing it, to push those users to use their new profile. I never fully used their 360 but did use the really old profile system that was used with yahoo chat which I haven't used in a long time. Given all the changes I guess I should check their chat out to see what is happening there.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1

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I want Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and all internet companies to do good. From my perspective the internet isn't a race or a competition. Most of us small guys look at it that way because if it is a race, we are too small to be in it. From most of our perspectives we all rise and fall together, and when we see any internet property disappear, at least for me, it is sad.