Yahoo! GeoCities is a Web hosting service, currently available only in Japan. Yahoo!

GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI). In 1999 Yahoo! GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo!; at that time it was the third-most visited Web site on the World Wide We b. In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to place their we b pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content for example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and th ose dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood" hence the name of the site. Shortly after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in fa vor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. In April 2009, approximately ten years after Yahoo! bought GeoCities,[2] the com pany announced that it would shut down the United States GeoCities service on Oc tober 26, 2009.[3][4][5] There were at least 38 million user-built pages on GeoC ities before it was shut down.[6] The GeoCities Japan version of the service is still available.[7] Contents [hide] 1 Neighborhoods 2 GeoCities Marketplace 3 GeoCities Japan 3.1 Japan neighborhoods 4 History 4.1 Acquisition by Yahoo! 4.2 Closure 5 Archiving GeoCities Web sites 6 Selected traffic statistics 7 Litigation 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Neighborhoods[edit source | editbeta] In 1996, Yahoo! GeoCities had 29 "neighborhoods," which had groupings of content created by the "homesteaders" (GeoCities users).[8] By 1999, GeoCities had addi tional neighborhoods and refocused existing neighborhoods.[9] Area51 and Vault Science fiction and fantasy, Conspiracy theories Athens and Acropolis Teaching, education, reading, writing, and philosophy Augusta Golf Baja Off-road SUVs and adventure travel BourbonStreet Jazz music, Cajun food, New Orleans and Southern United States top ics Broadway Theater and performing arts CapeCanaveral and Lab Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and aviatio n CapitolHill Politics and government CollegePark and Quad University life Colosseum, Field and Loge Athletics and sports EnchantedForest Topics of interest to children Eureka Small business and home offices Fashion Avenue Fashion Heartland and Plains Parenting and family (Originally also focused on pets)[8] Hollywood and Hills Films and actors HotSprings Health and fitness MadisonAvenue Advertising MotorCity Automobiles and racing and dodge cars NapaValley Wine, Gastronomy Nashville Country music LeftBank Romance, poetry, and the arts (For Paris-related topics such as food an d culture around 1996)[8]