Geocities set to close today

It's a sad day for many of us who've been around on the Internet for a long time. Geocities is set to close today. Started in 1994, it was the place for the masses to have their own website. I remember getting my own page and email address at geocities in 1995. I was lucky and early enough to get a short email address with just my name at the time.

Somehow, Yahoo never figured out how to make any money from Geocities, even though the network is still among the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the Internet, according to metrics tracker Alexa. That alone should have given Yahoo some reason to keep the site and try and revive it's usage, at least for ad content revenue.

But alas, that's not the case. But for those of you still looking for Geocities content, you may be relieved some it will be saved at the Archive Team, where they've been busily rushing to save pages, before today's deadline.