Editing GeoCities (section)

== Neighborhoods ==
In its original form, site users selected a so-called "city" in which to list the hyperlinks to their Web pages.<ref>{{cite news | first=Sreenath | last=Sreenivasan | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/17/business/new-neighborhood-no-money-down.html | title=New Neighborhood, No Money Down | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=1997-03-17 | access-date=2021-07-08 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708215319/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/17/business/new-neighborhood-no-money-down.html | archive-date=2021-07-08}}</ref> 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 favor 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).<ref name="Neighborhoods1996">{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/homestead/homedir.html|title=29 Neighborhoods|website=GeoCities|date=December 19, 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961219233921/http://www.geocities.com/homestead/homedir.html|access-date=April 30, 2009|archive-date=December 19, 1996}}</ref> By 1999, GeoCities had additional neighborhoods and refocused existing neighborhoods.<ref name="Neighborhoods99">{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/neighborhoods/|title=Visit these neighborhoods|website=GeoCities|date=February 9, 1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990209135604/http://geocities.com/neighborhoods/|access-date=April 30, 2009|archive-date=February 9, 1999}}</ref>