Alas…

GeoCities, the web hosting platform started in 1994, will shut down on Monday.

Wait, what now? GeoCities was still around?

Here’s hoping the guys who started it were smart enough to save some of the…

$3.5 BILLION!

they got from Yahoo.

GeoCities was bought by Yahoo in 1999 for $3.57 billion at the height of the “dot com era.”

However, as rival web hosting sites sprang up and the cost of having a unique web address became more affordable, sites like GeoCities lost popularity and ad revenues.

Why was I born 5-7 years too late?

Please tell me FortuneCity is still there.  I think I have a place over in the Rivendell neighborhood.