That service that hosted the cliched web pages of the late 90s is dead.

Remember back in the day when you barely had dialup and you were updating your ugly, blink-tag laden Geocities page you hand-coded in Notepad while signing up for Beenz and discovering Webvan? Oh, those days of pre-millenium Internet culture has been long gone, and Geocities was the only place that more or less still existed from those days (Angelfire? I hope that will stay around too, but it’s not very likely.) and continued to soldier on, even if it wasn’t making any money. Sometimes I wish I could find a ton of old 90s sites and surf them endlessly, like going back in time or something. But the closest I can get is Archive.org, which most definitely will display some of the sites that Geocities hosted, as a tribute to what got most of us into the Internet. Now almost nobody codes HTML in Notepad, thanks to CSS and the wonders of blogging.

XKCD, that comic that you either love or hate has, despite its many flaws as a comic strip, turned its site into one giant tribute page. If only it stayed that way forever.

So long, Geocities. But you will not be forgotten.