I was one of the original homesteaders in the pre-Yahoo days (pre-a-lot-of-things days, for that matter...you think this color palate came out of an Adobe product?), and although this page started falling into a state of "benign neglect" not long before I discovered blogging, it was one of those sentimental fixed points in a constantly changing Internet, but thanks to some baffling decisions (and inactions) on Yahoo's part, the writing has been on the wall for some time. (Obligatory sour grapes: 4.2 megabyte hourly bandwidth cap? Really? That can take a modern site offline with a couple of page refreshes! I've actually made it happen a few times!)

But that's just me being a bitter old(er) man. Geocities was there when people wanted to get their toes wet on this web thing without paying a monthly fee to make their mistakes, and for that, it played a big part in the history of the wired world we're living in right now. Godspeed, little homestead...