The end of another of those little eras in the life of the internet.
Geocities has been around as long as I can remember, well quite long.
They shall be missed - erm well maybe not but na speak ill of the dead!
Many of us probably cut our web creation/hosting teeth on this service, it was one of the first web hosts, it feels strangely odd that it's gone.
It's funny how such a large organization can manage to make such a balls up of a takeover 
Love this commemorative re-design of this site; it captured the archetypal Geocities style site to a tee.
I would say "you'll be
I would say "you'll be missed" but they removed my first website (built in 1996) ever a couple years back, so I can't say I'm too happy with them.
ooh and we wonder what that
ooh and we wonder what that site could have been about
I had a geocities site with
I had a geocities site with all the cool stuff, animated gifs, automatic switching themes for day and night. It disappeared many years ago, or maybe I just lost track of it.
Ah, geocities. They were the
Ah, geocities. They were the first free host that I remember. They added their script outside of the </html> tag so that we could enjoy their ads.