13 Facts About GeoCities

GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being renamed GeoCities.

GeoCities began during mid-1995 as BHI, which stood for Beverly Hills Internet, a small Web hosting and development company in Southern California.

GeoCities never enforced neighborhood-specific content; for example, a "Hollywood" homesteader could be nothing but a college student's home page.

GeoCities decided to emphasize increasing membership and community, and on December 15,1995, BHI became known as GeoCities after having been named Geopages.

At that time GeoCities was headquartered at 9401 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.

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However, GeoCities said in a press release that feedback regarding the watermark had been overwhelmingly positive.

Many of the webpages formerly hosted by GeoCities remained accessible, but could not be updated, until 2014.

GeoCities Japan had headquarters in the Nihonbashi Hakozaki Building in the Nihonbashi area of Chuo, Tokyo.

GeoCities provided free home pages and e-mail address to children and adults who provided personally identifying and demographic information when they registered for the website.

GeoCities illegally permitted third-party advertisers to promote products targeted to GeoCities' 1.

Problem of GeoCities was that it placed a privacy statement on its New Member Application Form and on its website promising that it would never give personally identifying information to anyone without the user's permission.

GeoCities sold personal information to third parties who used the information for purposes other than those for which members gave permission.

GeoCities was not allowed to collect personal identifying information from any child if GeoCities had actual knowledge that the child did not have their parents' permission to provide the information.