Yahoo! GeoCities is a Web hosting service, currently available only in Japan.
GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI), and by 1999 GeoCities was the third-most visited Web site on the World Wide Web. In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to place their Web pages. The "cities" were metonymously named after real cities or regions according to their content—for example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood"—hence the name of the site. Shortly after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs.
In April 2009, approximately ten years after Yahoo! bought GeoCities,[1] the company announced that it would shut down the United States GeoCities service on October 26, 2009.[2][3][4] There were at least 38 million user-built pages on GeoCities before it was shut down.[5] The GeoCities Japan version of the service is still available.[6]
GeoCities remains a popular website two-and-a-half years after it was shut down by Yahoo!, ranking among the top 7,000 websites in the world.[7]Remember Geocities, the 90s-era webpage builder that you probably used to host your “About Me” page in 6th grade computer class? Yahoo shut down Geocities’ U.S. service back in 2009,
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