Obituary notice for my Geocities pages

In 1995 the Geocities project started as a very promising online community. There were topic neighbourhoods for sports, computers, politics, environment and all sorts of interest. The community was big and quite active. A large number of volunteers helped newcomers setting up their site and created a platform of specific interest and promoted interaction of users. Comparable to a real society Geocities grew from a little town to a big city of almost 5 Million personal homepages when it merged with Yahoo in 1998.

From then on all kinds of community activities seemed unwanted and Yahoo-Geocities disencouraged volunteers from their activities. Geocities became just like any other webspace on the WWW that you can have for free, when you accept nagging advertisement popups. The original idea that was worth the 3.5 Billion Dollar deal with Yahoo is gone now.

I was one of the activists in the early days. After the merger I still kept this site online. But new terms of service and reduced technical features made me move now.
Yahoo-Geoities, thank you for the webspace and for your great past, but it is not my place anymore.

Your former CL bolo