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Established in California in 1995, GeoCities was a leading web hosting service. Initially known as BHI, it started with six themed communities and provided ‘Homesteaders’ or users, 2MB of complimentary space for their personal web pages. GeoCities grew to incorporate diverse ‘neighborhoods’ such as CapitolHill and Tokyo, and by the close of 1995, it proudly showcased 14 neighborhoods with millions of page views every month. In a landmark event in its timeline, Yahoo! purchased GeoCities in 1999 for $3.57 billion in stock. However, alterations in the terms of service among other reasons led to GeoCities’ shutdown in the U.S. in October 2009. Despite its discontinuation, GeoCities left an indelible imprint as it was a pioneer in user-generated content platforms, ranked as the third most visited site during its peak, and hosted a minimum of 38 million pages prior to its shutdown. Presently, GeoCities is commemorated for its crucial role in the Internet^[1]’s infancy and the influence it exerted on internet culture.

Définitions des termes

1. ↑ Internet. L'internet, réseau mondial de systèmes informatiques interconnectés, utilise des protocoles de communication normalisés, principalement TCP/IP, pour connecter des appareils à travers le monde. Le terme "Internet" trouve son origine dans le terme "internetted" de 1849 et a été adopté par le ministère américain de la guerre en 1945. L'origine de l'internet remonte aux années 1960, lorsque des informaticiens ont mis au point des systèmes de partage du temps, qui ont finalement abouti à la création d'ARPANET en 1969. L'internet fonctionne de manière autonome, sans aucun contrôle central, et l'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gère ses espaces de noms primaires. Il a révolutionné les méthodes de communication traditionnelles et a connu une croissance exponentielle, le nombre d'internautes augmentant de 20% à 50% chaque année. En 2019, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale utilisait l'internet. La suite de protocoles internet, qui comprend le protocole TCP/IP et quatre couches conceptuelles, dirige les paquets internet vers leur destination. Des services fondamentaux tels que le courrier électronique et la téléphonie par internet fonctionnent sur l'internet. Le World Wide Web, un vaste réseau de documents interconnectés, est un élément essentiel de l'internet.

GeoCities (Wikipedia)

GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities. On January 28, 1999, it was acquired by Yahoo !, at which time it was reportedly the third-most visited website on the World Wide Web.

GeoCities
Logo under Yahoo! from 2009 to 2019
Type de site	Web hosting service
Propriétaire	GeoCities (1994–1999) Yahoo ! (1999–2009)
Créé par	David Bohnett and John Rezner
Commercial	Oui
Inscription	Oui
Lancé	November 1994; 29 years ago (1994-11)
Statut actuel	Inactive since 2009 (Japanese version inactive since 2019)

In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence the name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo !, this practice was abandoned in favor of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs.

In April 2009, the company announced that it would end the United States GeoCities service on October 26, 2009.

There were at least 38 million pages displayed by GeoCities before it was terminated, most user-written. The GeoCities Japan version of the service endured until March 31, 2019.

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