Today, Oct 26, 2009 – Yahoo! owned Geocities is closing. Geocities began in 1995 and is a vivid memory of many who were on the internet at that time. Huge pink type, terrible animated .gifs, and rainbow backgrounds are the most common thing I think of when I hear ‘Geocities’. Geocities’ popularity has declined since 1999 when Yahoo! purchased the site for $3.5 billion. Yes, billion.

Luckily, ArchiveTeam has created a site preserving hundreds of the infamous animated .gif ‘under construction’ signs commonly associated with Geocities. Here are a few:

Goodbye ugly internet site. Will MySpace please die next?

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Ricky Salsberry is an interactive designer working in Chicago and the editor of The Donut Project. In his spare time he reads/rants about technology, watches hockey, wrecks his bike, and designs some more.