GeoCities

GeoCities was a free web-hosting service that opened in 1994 and was shut down the week of October 26, 2009.Farhad Manjoo, How GeoCities Invented the Internet, Slate.com, Oct. 27, 2009. (Accessed 29 October 2009)GeoCities, Wikipedia. (Accessed 27 February 2010) It was an enormously popular service for fansites in the 90s, hosting fanarchives, fanfiction, fanart, zine advertising, and all the myriad fan creations.
Attempts to access web sites formerly hosted by GeoCities using the original GeoCities URL now lead to a site advertising Yahoo! Small Business.Geocities has shut down (accessed 5th July 2015)
See Fanlore's List of GeoCities Fansites. For a full listing of articles on Fanlore see :Category:GeoCities
==Neighborhood Directory and Profile==
Geocities was divided into neighborhoods where members could enter and form part of communities according to the content of their websites. Small explanation from Oocities: 
==Some History==
==Some 1998 Rules==
==A 1998 Shutdown==
==1999 Rumor==
From a fan discussion in 1999 asked: 
==The 2009 Shutdown: A Sample Plea Regarding the Site Closing==
From an X-Files fan in 2009:
==Geocities Archival and Rescue Programs==
===Archiving efforts===
After Yahoo announced the closure in April 2009, Several groupsGeoCities, Archiveteam.org. (Accessed 14 January 2010) started various types of preservation projects to copy or document sites hosted on the domain.
Soon after the GeoCities termination announcement, the Internet Archive announced a project to archive GeoCities pages, stating "GeoCities has been an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years." Internet Archive made it their task to ensure the thoroughness and completeness of their archive of GeoCities sites. The former Web site InternetArchaeology.org also archived and showcased artifacts from GeoCities. The operators of the site Reocities downloaded as much of the content hosted on GeoCities as they could before it ended, in an attempt to create a mirror of GeoCities, albeit an incomplete one."The Geocities Gallery ." Reocities. 2009. Retrieved on October 27, 2009.
Another site attempting to build an archive of defunct GeoCities sites is GeoCities.ws. Other sites with this purpose were WebCite, as well as now-defunct Geociti.es (closed 2011), Oocities.org and Ge.ocities.org.
On the first anniversary of GeoCities' termination, Archive Team announced that they would release a torrent file archive of 641 GB (prior to 7z compression, it was approximately 900 GB of data), and did so on October 29, 2010. On April 9, 2011, Archive Team released a patch for the first GeoCities torrent.
Fandom-related projects include:
* the Organization for Transformative Works' GeoCities Rescue Project
* ReoCities, an independent project that mirrors a substantial portion of GeoCities—exchanged URL lists with the Internet Archive during the final round of archiving
* Oocities, saved around two million pages during the final days of GeoCities (20 to 27 October 2009). Searchable and browseable by "neighborhood".
* Internet Archive: GeoCities Special Collection 2009
* Internet Archive: The Archive Team Geocities Valhalla
* Fan History Wiki's GeoCities Preservation Project
==Fan Comments==
===2003===
==References==
*GeoCities