Geocities closing down

It was my first introduction to the HTML and web development, my first hosted page, http://www.geocities.com/ruturaj_v. Which over few years had become something like this

My geocities website

Unfortunately, today I got a mail from Yahoo saying that they just don’t love geocities anymore and would be knocking it off on 26 October 2009.

Geocities closing

As it goes down, It will take down numerous of other websites that had spawn on its platform, some of which just because they couldn’t bear the heavy costs before year 2000.

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