The resulting rows reveal the vast variety of image choices that represent the same graphic subject: scrolling through “Cameron’s World” takes one through, for example, diverse sections of planets, hearts and roses, oceanic life, and even “UNDER CONSTRUCTION” signs — which speak to the feelings of complete ownership people had over their pages.Geo Cities was a web-hosting service that made it possible for people to build their own home pages. service shut down in October 2009, there were over 38 million Geo Cities pages. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first "mega deal" when it was sold to Yahoo!My partner at Flatiron, Jerry Colonna, who led the Geocities investment, will read this post and will surely correct all the things I get a little wrong so make sure to read the comments.In mid-1995, the company decided to offer users (thereafter known as "Homesteaders") the ability to develop free home pages within those neighborhoods.During the sign-up process, new members chose to which neighborhood they wanted to belong.In 1999, Yahoo (YHOO) paid .65 billion for Geo Cities.

The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content—for example, computer-related sites were placed in "Silicon Valley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood"—hence the name of the site. , this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! In April 2009, approximately ten years after Yahoo!

I felt that we could use a couple "sure winners" and there is nothing like cherry picking a venture fund you know well to produce a sure winner. I picked Multex (which went on to go public and then sell to Reuters for 0mm). Jerry flew out to Los Angeles where Geocities was headquartered (it was initially called Beverly Hills Internet) and talked to David Bohnett, the founder of the company.

Geocities stopped offering free web-hosting services in the United States, rendering its at least 38 million personal, custom-designed pages frozen in time, accessible albeit unmodifiable.

This neighborhood became part of the member's Web address along with a sequentially assigned "street address" number to make the URL unique (for example, " Drive/number").

Descendent of Nancy Westfall 3a) Samuel and Nancy (Slaughter) Westfalls daughter Nancy Westfall was born 9 Mar. I have decided to check out my family online since no one wants to claim me, so i can get to know my family background.