For most home users GeoCities was the 1st place they were able to set up a webpage on the internet to share everything from home pictures to anything else you can think of. GeoCities was one of the very 1st websites to offer free hosting and an easy user screen where anyone without a lot tech skills could set up there “Homestead” (Page) as GeoCities called them.

Each “Homestead” covered a different subject matter, GeoCities was also one of the 1st to sort the user domains by the subject (even though they never actually mandated that your page had to be in a specific homestead). As a trip down memory lane here is the list of Homestead at the height of GeoCities (From The GeoCities Wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/GeoCities))

• Area51 (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Area_51) and /Vault – Science fiction and fantasy
• Athens (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Athens) and /Acropolis (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Acropolis) – Teaching, education, reading, writing, and philosophy
• Augusta (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club) – Golf
• Baja (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Baja) – Off-road SUVs and adventure travel
• BourbonStreet (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street) – Jazz (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Jazz), Cajun food (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Cajun_food), New Orleans (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/New_Orleans) and Southern United States (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Southern_United_States) topics
• CapeCanaveral (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral) and /Lab – Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and aviation
• CapitolHill (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill,_Washington,_D NULL.C NULL.) – Politics and government
• CollegePark (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/College_Park) and /Quad – University life
• Colosseum (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Colosseum) and /Field – Athletics and sports
• EnchantedForest (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Enchanted_forest) – Topics of interest to children
• Eureka (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)) – Small business and home offices
• Fashion Avenue – Fashion
• Heartland (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Heartland) and /Plains – Parenting and family (Originally also focused on pets^{[27] (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/#cite_note-Neighborhoods1996-26)})
• Hollywood (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles,_California) and /Hills (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Hollywood_Hills) – Films and actors
• HotSprings (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Hot_spring) – Health and fitness
• MadisonAvenue (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Madison_Avenue) – Advertising
• MotorCity (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Detroit) – Automobiles and racing
• NapaValley (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Napa_County,_California) – Wine
• Nashville (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee) – Country music (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Country_music)
• Paris (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Paris) and /LeftBank (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche) – Romance, poetry, and the arts (For Paris-related topics such as food and culture around 1996^{[27] (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/#cite_note-Neighborhoods1996-26)})
• Pentagon (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/The_Pentagon) – Military

• Petsburgh – Pets
• PicketFence – Home improvement and real estate
• Pipeline – Extreme sports (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Extreme_sport)
• RainForest (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rainforest) – Conservation
• RodeoDrive (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rodeo_Drive) – Shopping and upscale lifestyles
• ResearchTriangle – Research and Development, technology
• SiliconValley (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley), /Heights, /Park, and /Pines – Computers, hardware, programming, and technology
• SoHo (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/SoHo) and /Lofts – Art and writing
• SouthBeach (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/South_Beach) and /Marina – A “high-style hot spot for hanging out, meeting and greeting, seeing and being seen.”
• SunsetStrip (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Sunset_Strip), /Alley, /Palms, and /Towers – Music such as blues (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Blues), grunge (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Grunge), punk rock (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Punk_rock), and rock ‘n roll (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rock_%27n_roll)
• TheTropics (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Tropics) and /Shores – Travel and vacations
• TelevisionCity – Television
• TimesSquare (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Times_Square) and /Arcade – Computer and video games (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Video_game)
• Tokyo (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Tokyo) – Far East (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Far_East)-related topics, including anime (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Anime)
• Vienna (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Vienna) – Ballet (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Ballet), classical music (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Classical_music), and opera (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Opera)
• WallStreet (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Wall_Street) – Business and finance
• Wellesley (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Wellesley_College) – Women-related topics
• WestHollywood (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/West_Hollywood,_California) – homosexual (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Homosexual), bisexual (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Bisexual), and transgender (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Transgender) topics
• Yosemite (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Yosemite) – Outdoor recreation including climbing (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Climbing), hiking (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Hiking), rafting (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Rafting), and skiing (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Skiing)

GeoCities which was started by David Bohnett (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/David_Bohnett) and John Rezner (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/John_Rezner), became a Yahoo Property at the height of the Dot Com bubble in 1999.  At its height GeoCities was the 3rd most visited website only behind AOL and Yahoo.  However, with the dot com burst and even with various changes made by Yahoo (Changing the Homesteads to geocities.com/username sites) GeoCities fell behind as other newer players came on scene.

Yahoo announce earlier this year that it would close GeoCities and now October 26th comes the end of one of the 1st web homes for many (Myself included). Since the announcement of the closing, many sites like the Internet Archive (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Internet_Archive) announced their g
oal of preserving archive copies of as many of the GeoCities pages as possible.