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GeoCities

GeoCities is a free webhosting service founded by David Bohnett in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet.

In its original form, people's pages on the site were assigned to different "cities", named after 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; now, however, this feature has been abandoned.

History

GeoCities began as BHI, a live web camera feed from Hollywood, California to the rest of the world. BHI's success came about because of its idea to link real places to "cybercities", or "GeoCities". After the creation of several themed neighborhoods, BHI became known as GeoCities on December 15, 1995, at which time its monthly page views were topping six million.

Over time, many companies, including Yahoo!, invested extensively in GeoCities and the site continued to grow, with the introduction of paid premium services. In May of 1997, GeoCities introduced advertisements on its pages. Despite negative reaction from users, Geocities continued to grow.

In August 1998, the company went public, listing on the NASDAQ exchange with the code GCTY. The IPO price was $17, rising rapidly after launch to a peak of over $100. However, on May 28, 1999, it was purchased by Yahoo!.

Yahoo!'s acquisition of GeoCities proved extremely unpopular and users soon began to leave en masse in protest at the new Terms of Service put out by Yahoo for Geocities. The terms stated that the company owned all rights and content, including media such as pictures. Yahoo quickly reversed it's decision. In July of 1999, Yahoo! eliminated neighborhoods and street addresses from homesteader URLs. These were replaced by "vanity" URLs consisting of http://www.geocities.com/membername. Soon after, in response to a lawsuit filed against AOL by its own community managers, GeoCities' Community Leaders were fired or transferred to other departments.

GeoCities neighborhoods

According to a February 1999 archive of the site [1], the forty-one "neighborhoods" were (in alphabetical order):

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