Some say mankind is lost, and if you look around, you may be tempted to agree. Fortunately, there are a lot things worth fighting for, and of them is history. Since we should be talking about computers and Internet here, it’s about the history of these domains, obviously. Founded back in late 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI), Geocities became one of the Internet’s icons, having about 38 million user-built pages before its closure, a sad event that took place on the 26th of October, 2009.
Seeing a Web hosting service going down is nothing out of ordinary, but seeing one like Geocities going down, that’s really sad, as I said, since this actually killed a part of the Internet as we know it. Fortunately, not all is lost, because someone came to the rescue. Just one man, some hardware, a great idea, and a lot of work – Reocities!
This site is a great resource for everyone, no matter if they were online during Geocities’ days of glory or not. Speaking for myself, I only had a friend with a Geocities page, but he deleted that one after a while. Anyway, history is history, and we should preserve it, so I say a big THANK YOU to Jacques Mattheij from The Netherlands, the man behind this huge effort to keep as many Geocities pages alive after death!
What you should do? Well, if you checked Reocities‘ main page, I am sure you also got to the other interesting parts, but if you haven’t, I strongly suggest to check at least the Open Letter and the Making Of pages. The rest of it is silence… RIP Geocities and welcome to the virtual world, Reocities! 
