Dreamhost's blog post is a good read as well about Geocities history and crazy valuation
<a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/24/theyre-internet-history...</a>
I hope that they freeze the websites as internet history after shuttering the service. I'm going to miss websites like:<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/</a>
or maybe
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/saufor/" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/saufor/</a><p>These are gems that should not be taken from us.
> I learned that the Internet is all about people expressing themselves on pages they own and control.<p>I didn't have a Geocities site but my dad had several. He created and maintained them for some of the organizations he was actively involved in. Photos, articles, a virtual storybook. He was very proud of it - he did it all by himself (which was a relief for his direct technical support line - me)<p>Perhaps we can say Geocities began the democratization of Internet self expression that has led to Facebook, Twitter and maybe even Googlezon and EPIC (or something similar). So long, Geocities, and thanks for the fish.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlezon" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlezon</a>