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In its original form, site users selected a so-called "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages.[41] The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer-related sites were displayed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence the name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favour of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. During 1996, GeoCities had 29 "neighborhoods," which had groupings of content created by the "homesteaders" (GeoCities users).[42] By 1999, GeoCities had additional neighborhoods and refocused existing neighborhoods.[43]
In its original form, site users selected a so-called "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages.[41] The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content: For example, computer-related sites were displayed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood", hence the name of the site. Soon after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favour of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs. During 1996, GeoCities had 29 "neighborhoods," which had groupings of content created by the "homesteaders" (GeoCities users).[42] By 1999, GeoCities had additional neighborhoods and refocused existing neighborhoods.[43]