Deleted City Contains a 640 Gigabyte Archive of Geocities

Posted on October 8, 2011

The Deleted City contains a 640 gigabyte archive of the defunct Geocities website. Geocities was the third most popular website during the 1990s. Yahoo actually paid a staggering $3.5 billion for Geocities, but ended up having to close it down in 2009. MySpace and Facebook could become the next Geocities if something better comes along and people decide to move their information. Geocities was known for its overuse of stupid animated gifs and poor designs. Most of today's social networks avoid this problem by forcing people to use the same layout for their profiles. Take a look: