i’ve gathered here some techcrunch comments;

“My first site was actually on Angelfire (anyone remember them), but I do remember quickly moving over to Geocities – can’t remember the reason behind it though. I believe it was because of the neighborhoods – making it easier for others to find your site.” (michael wells)

“I feel old. My nephew, who is 14 and codes circles around me, asked ‘what was GeoCities’.” (jill)

“…as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.” (duncan winter)

“Hi — I worked for GeoCities. To me, GeoCities really expired when Yahoo acquired it. On a purely surface level, yeah, GeoCities was a just free web hosting service with a whole lot of ugly pages (myspace, anyone??). But it was already way more than that when Yahoo acquired it. It really GOT the spirit of online community and was exploring ways to innovate further — which is what made it so awesome to work there (we focused on people and usability). It pioneered everything we now call social media/networking from blogging to category clouds to tweeting, etc.” (liza)