Thursday, October 9, 2025

Actually it looks like Yahoo bought Geocities in January 1999. However, it ended around 2007? Not sure at this point.

 

 

I didn't start blogging at all at Geocities until 1999 and I stopped around 2007 when I got this website at blogger.com (Blogspot). I got this one mostly at the time because of "Compose" which is a encoder engine which meant I didn't have to keep programming everything in HTML myself which is very time consuming. Also, I could more easily put things with pictures online using Compose which I liked a lot at the time. EVentually somewhere between 2007 and 2009 geocities stopped existing. I moved as much information as I could from there to this site and also to dragonofcompassion.com which I bought from Yahoo business around this time too.

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Yahoo! acquired
GeoCities in January 1999 for $3.57 billion in stock, with Yahoo! taking control of the online community platform shortly thereafter in May 1999. 

Key details of the acquisition:
  • Date: The initial agreement was signed in January 1999, and control was transferred in May 1999.
  • Price: Yahoo! paid approximately $3.57 billion to $3.9 billion in stock for GeoCities.
  • Context: The acquisition happened near the peak of the dot-com bubble, with GeoCities being a popular platform for user-created homepages.
  • Impact: The deal was the largest acquisition of a Southern California Internet start-up at the time and aimed to strengthen Yahoo!'s position in the growing online world. 

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