Some of the very first pages are set to be closed by owner Yahoo! Geocities once boasted millions of users and at its height, was the third most popular website on the internet.
Since the launch of websites such as MySpace and Facebook it’s fallen out of fashion with users and will close forever on October 26th 2009.
It’s not all bad news though, the Internet Archive project has already started a project to archive Geocities before it closes. Today the BBC reported…
"We’ve collected a lot of GeoCities sites over the years – but might not have every site and every page," the Internet Archive said.
It is asking for GeoCities users to check whether their site has been archived before Yahoo pulls the plug.
"GeoCities has been an important outlet for personal expression on the web for almost 15 years," it said.
Geocities began life in 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, a small web hosting firm. Yahoo! bought the service at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999 for £2.17bn ($3.57bn).
