GeoCities became an instant moot point once sites like Myspace came around and allowed people to customize their profiles. The thing about GeoCities was that it never really evolved beyond a place where you could put crappy HTML and images surrounded by loud colors and ads injected by GeoCities.
Since websites have become incredibly complex, the basic service of GeoCities just stagnated. Most people want a page showing off their profiles, favorite lists, belong to some community and maybe write a blog on occasion. With Facebook, you more than compensate for most of those requirements above while various blogging systems like Blogger, WordPress, etc. provided the tools for simple content generation. GeoCities just stayed in the quagmire of mediocrity. In fact, they'd even shut down sites that got too much traffic.
But let's face it. This is something Yahoo should have pulled back in 2005 at the very latest. I mean, when was the last time you visited a GeoCities page?
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