Geocities.com Official
: Rebranded as GeoCities , introducing the "neighborhood" concept. 1998 : Went public (IPO) on the NASDAQ. 1999 : Acquired by Yahoo! for approximately $3.57 billion.
: GeoCities Japan , the last remaining official branch, officially closed. Operational Structure: The "Neighborhoods" geocities.com
: Yahoo! shut down the U.S. service, resulting in the loss of an estimated 7 terabytes of user data. : Rebranded as GeoCities , introducing the "neighborhood"