An important day in history has come.  One of the first “social networking” sites has closed down.  Geocities was a place to create and host a free website and was quite popular throughout the 90’s.  When I think of Geocities, I see bad page backgrounds, sites full of animated gifs, and poor navigation.  However, it brings back fond memories of getting my start in programming and building web pages.  I am sad to see such a large part of the history of the internet shut down.
http://mashable.com/2009/04/23/geocities-shutdown/