After almost 15 years, GeoCities will be closing down its doors later this year. It is a sad day as one of internet’s oldest icons will finally be made to rest.

For those who weren’t old enough, GeoCities is a free website hosting service that was extremely popular during the early days of the internet. Back then, hosting your own website was still prohibitably expensive, but GeoCities offered a free option for new users. This caused an explosion of content within GeoCities, hosting anything from computer tutorials to humor and gossip. And all of these content were done with less than 10MB of space! Who couldn’t remember all those blinking text and animated backgrounds that became a trademark of that era? And who didn’t hate Yahoo’s ads that inserted itself on every opportunity it gets?

But sadly, in this time and age, Yahoo’s business model is now being disrupted by Google. Yahoo has now choice but to let go.

GeoCities, you will be missed…