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Geocities was a once very popular web hosting service founded in 1994 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999. Marked by its once-generous allotment of 15 megabytes and the free (with added advertisements) price, it was at one point the 3rd most-browsed site on the World Wide Web.
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today
latimesblogs.latimes.com 10/26/2009 — We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps.
Instead, GeoCities will probably go down with a whimper ...
How to Blow $3.5 Billion —
Valleywag
Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today . Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time : $3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google's founders were simultaneously begging server funds.
Yahoo had a shot at acquiring ...
Honoring fallen comrades. GeoCities goes down. —
CrunchGear
Today marks the death of an internet giant. One of the first, one of the best. Oh GeoCities. What would we have done without you? Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no ...
Geocities Finally Shuts the Gates —
Maximum PC all RSS Feed
As we bring in the new, out must go the old. And the old is GeoCities which, with about 15 years of life, the last ten under the benign neglect of Yahoo, has finally been pushed out the door. Today is GeoCities last day , may it rest in peace.
GeoCities seems old school by today’s ...
Share your favorite stories about GeoCities —
Webware.com
It's official: GeoCities, once one of the most trafficked sites on the Web, has officially seen its last day . It's a sad time for many of us who cut our Web teeth on GeoCities.
GeoCities might have featured millions of sites that were ugly and poorly designed, but the site let us get ...
End of an Era: Geocities Officially Closes Today —
Switched
For months now, we've known this day was coming . But that doesn't make saying goodbye any easier. Geocities , the granddaddy of homepage -hosting services, is shutting down today. Not only will the service become obsolete, but all its data will be permanently deleted, too.
Geocities has ...
GeoCities gets faceful of wrecking ball —
The Register
How many blinking GIFs will be saved? Yahoo! is demolishing GeoCities today, a decade after acquiring the ticky-tacky build-your-own-website service for $3.57bn in stock.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
Curtain Call for GeoCities —
Technologizer
Sometime today, the servers for what once was one of the most popular sites on the web will be shut off. As earlier announced, Yahoo will be shutting down the once very popular GeoCities web hosting service for good. The company says it will not be archiving the content, so if you have an old ...
Xkcd Redesign Pays Homage to GeoCities, Which Dies Today —
Webmonkey
Web comic xkcd is sporting a fresh redesign Monday morning, paying tribute to the free web-hosting service GeoCities. Yahoo, which bought GeoCities in 1999 for $3.5 billion dollars, is shutting down the service today after ten years of stewardship.
GeoCities was a place anyone could start ...
R.I.P. GeoCities: The Old Days Remembered —
WebProNews Feed
Yahoo has officially shut down Geocities today. The company has said that it did not count the property among its priorities, so it is simply getting rid of it. Yahoo has shut down about 20 services in less than a year.
We learned that Yahoo would be closing the door on GeoCities back in ...
Geocities Dies Today —
Silicon Alley Insider
Today's the day: Yahoo is pulling the plug on Geocities, the Web hosting service it acquired for $3.6 billion in 1999.
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Geocities Is Dead, Long Live Geocities [History] —
Gizmodo
Today's the day: Yahoo has officially killed the once-ubiquitous free hosting service, taking down thousands of the ugliest and least-updated pages on the web. It's really the end of an era. A moment of silence, please. [ ComputerWorld via Daily What ]
GeoCities Closes Today —
AppScout
This is it. After a dozen years and a Yahoo-acquisition, GeoCities is closing for good. After today, those countless homemade Websites will no longer be viewable, and site owners will no longer be able to view their accounts and files. As of 10:00 AM EDT today, sites are still viewable--I just ...
Memory Lane: XKCD Pays Tribute to GeoCities —
Mashable!
Ah, you kids that were born after 1990 probably have no idea what horrors us geeks of old had to endure in the early days of the Internet. Of course, what was painful then is nothing but a fond memory now, so I’m sure many folks will shed a tear when they see today’s issue of ...
GeoCities gets faceful of wrecking ball —
The Register
How many blinking GIFs will be saved? Yahoo! is demolishing GeoCities today, a decade after acquiring the ticky-tacky build-your-own-website service for $3.57bn in stock.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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