That's an "end of an era" kind of thing .... yes, an era of bad HTML, auto-playing MIDI files and twinkly graphics, and I've been guilty of all of the above (see XKCD's totally-right-on parody of Geocities today), but a lot of fannish connections were formed through sites there. Good night and thank you, Geocities!

I'm not involved with this project myself, but the Organization for Transformative Works has started a GeoCities Rescue Project. This sounds like a very worthy undertaking to me.

Cross-posted from Dreamwidth