1: Forever. Assume anything posted online is there forever. 2: Not really. But then, most people don't care, and the only culture we'll have in the future is

1: Forever. Assume anything posted online is there forever. 2: Not really. But then, most people don't care, and the only culture we'll have in the future is the stuff people copy now, don't be angry at them for your mistakes. In the grand scheme of things they're doing a good thing. 3: If geocities was still up I'd say robots.txt. At this point however, I don't think there's any service that can help you. 4: Yes. (I have.) I think most of generation Z will have this problem. But it won't become obvious to the mainstream for a few more years. Oh, and in case your wondering how to solve it. Your only real options as far as I know are to SEO yourself to death to get the geocities crap off the front page of google. Or ignore it.