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The Resume

    (1995-October 26, 2009)
    Born in United States
    Web hosting service
    Best known for its free personal websites
    Created by David Bohnet and John Rezner
    Known as Beverly Hills Internet and GeoPages until 1995
    Initially consisted of several ‘neighborhoods’ or ‘cities’ (CapitalHill for politics, Hollywood for movies, Athens for education, etc…)
    Acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for 3.57 billion in stock
    Discontinued by Yahoo in 2009

Why GeoCities might be annoying:

    The first users were called ‘homesteaders.’
    It was notorious for its tacky user pages with animated GIFs and midi files.
    It started allowing ads in 1997.
    It was charged with passing on personal user information to third party advertisers in 1999.
    Despite all the banner and pop-up ads, it was never particularly profitable.
    It came to be eclipsed by social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
    The user pages were not archived, meaning many are now vanished forever.

Why GeoCities might not be annoying:

    It was groundbreaking in its time for allowing people with limited computer skills to create personal web content.
    It added chat and bulletin board features in the 1990s.
    It was the third most visited site on the web at its peak in 1999.
    It was still among the 200 most visited sites when Yahoo! pulled the plug.
    Yahoo! did little to keep it fresh and competitive.
    Sites such as the Internet Archive and ReoCites tried to save as many GeoCities pages as possible.
    GeoCities Japan remains online (as of November 2009).

Credit: Georgina


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    In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying