GeoCities passed on 26 October 2009, having lived fifteen years as the first place where anyone could build a home on the web. Born in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, it offered a neighbourhood, a street, and a page. Users chose where to live: Hollywood, Tokyo, Athens. At its peak it hosted more than three and a half million sites. Yahoo acquired it in 1999 for more than three billion dollars. Social networks arrived. Yahoo announced the shutdown in April 2009. Users had six months to save their sites. The Archive Team raced to preserve what it could. On 26 October the servers went dark. He is survived by the archive, which holds what was saved, and by the memory of a web that was once a place you could live.