Whatever happened to geocities and all those exuberant web pages? It turns out the service, which at one point was the third most popular on the web, was bought by Yahoo! in 1999 and shut down in 2009 (October 26th-7th of 2009.) GeoCities was a Web 2.0 social site before its time. Yahoo! just couldn’t figure out how to make money off it.
One of the things that has happened to GeoCities is that various projects have archived parts of it. Internet Archaeology, for example, has archived the graphic art, the gif animations (like the Welcome above) and even some of the home pages like Welcome to Avalon.