downloadsquad.com - 27 days ago
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When Yahoo! decided to close down GeoCities, a lot of us shed a single tear for our first home on the Internet and moved on. For one man called Jacques, though, that wasn't good enough. He took it upon himself to save as much of GeoCities as possible, by writing scripts that pinged the ...
blogs.computerworld.com - 10/25/2009
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blogs.computerworld.com —
, once the Internet's third most visited domain
, will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking...
with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to ...
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Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26
archiveteam.org - 10/25/2009
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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 ...
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reocities.com - 28 days ago
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reocities.com —
Welcome To ReoCities... Install FireFox Link Fixer Here
lies what we could salvage from the ashes of...
GeoCities. Yahoo! has done an amazing thing by keeping GeoCities alive for as long as they did, but we feel that it is a waste to leave the Internet ...
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Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities...
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Reocities Strives to Keep the Geocities Memory Alive
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... Now that Geocities has been shuttered for good by Yahoo, do you find yourself wanting to have just one more look around? Geocities may have been home to some of the ugliest, most poorly designed sites in existence, but it was special to a lot of people. For many, it was their first foray into the internet – the first real hub of content creation we all shared. If you fall into this category, you’re in luck. You can head on over to ...
Best of the Rest: Google's 'Fail Whale,' Saving Geocities
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... In case you just can't get enough animated gifs and terribly designed pages, someone backed up 600,00 GeoCities sites before this week's shutdown. [From: DownloadSquad] ...
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