Tag archive: GeoCities

There's nothing like a good infographic to teach us something too boring for simple text. This lengthy graphic chronicles the “history of social networking,” from the very first email sent in 1971 to several of the social networking sites that dominate the Web today. Along the way we meet several ill-fated sites and services like Usenet, Geocities, TheGlobe, SixDegrees, and Friendster. Did you know that the first version of… Read More

Back in the late-90′s dot-com boom, hosting provider GeoCities was to the Web what sites like FaceBook and MySpace are today: a simple, easy-to-use site where folks could create and publish their own Web pages, complete with templates, backgrounds, annoying blinking text, and the same animated GIF mailbox highlighting an email address. Yahoo bought GeoCities in 1999 for almost $3 billion; now, Yahoo has announced it is closing the… Read More