Could Yahoo have saved GeoCities? Probably not. It could certainly have done a better job keeping the site up to date, but even if Yahoo had added the sort of social-networking features that have since come along on the Web, GeoCities would never have lived down its late-1990s HTML excesses. It’s likely that any attempt to revive it—to turn it into something like Facebook—would have seemed less savvy than sad, like a hair metal band coming back to do grunge. GeoCities was a pioneer, but it was firmly of its time and place. And for anyone looking to relive those glory days, there’s always Angelfire.