I happened to check my yahoo email today, and got this message concerning my old fansite:
Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer, We’re writing to let you know that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009. On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files. What You Need to Do If you’d like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you’ve posted online, you need to act now by choosing one of the following options…
…And it continues on with either paying for monthly subscriptions, or download your stuff before it’s gone. I hate to see this happen, but it was inevitable. It was visiting tons of Geocities webpages that got me into the online fandom in the first place, which I’m sure is the same story for countless others.
While most people have their own sites or are using hosting websites like fanfiction.net and deviantArt nowadays, there’s a lot of the older fans who’ve kept their Geocities pages up since as long as I can remember. I always visited Kali Gargoyle’s site, Ria-Angelo, Azure, and countless others.. The ‘ring of green’ from years ago may cease to exist all together..
So if you know someone who’s got a Geocities site, please inform them about this. It’d be a crime to lose so much effort…
~ Machias