Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom.

Before there were blogs, there was GeoCities, the free, "make-yer-own-page" community that molded the late '90s Internet era with overwhelming high-contrast color schemes, obnoxious designs, and plenty of Baby's First HTML. People still post that stuff on MySpace, obviously, but Geocities was a trailblazer for incompetency in Web design and, as such, deserves a tribute.

To your end, GeoCities, may we offer a 21-GIF salute.

EDIT: I just re-read the press release. Yahoo paid FOUR BILLION DOLLARS for that crap? Boy, those were better days.