XKCD commemerates GeoCities
sigh But we should remember the social site of today is the GeoCities Site of the next decade. Though I think, despite the somewhat trite bleeps and blurps of the GeoCities era, there was a bloody ton of innovation and invention that occurred in and around this product.  It's passing is the end of an era.  Chat rooms, personal websites, web based socialization all began in the likes of a GeoCities.