Posted on 10/26/2009 3:29:28 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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 today.
Time is up for Yahoo Inc.'s scheduled closing of perhaps the most significant virtual museum in recent history. Years ago a central meeting place for a massive chunk of American Web surfers, GeoCities will lock its doors and take millions of pages offline.
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WoW! That’s a shocker. They have been on line for a very long time! Thank God I went with Anglefire instead of them. I’ve got 5GB of space with them, and it only costs me $11. a month. I’ve got more bandwith than I will ever use.
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It must be that incredibly savvy Obama administration that rescued this internet site. Oh, wait a minute... ;-)
11 billion dead links are born today
My first website was on geocities. Jeez, probably ten years ago. Nothing more than a few photos of me and my friends and a guestbook people could sign. Haven’t thought about that place in years. Wonder if it’s still up?
Guess it won't be after today. Duh...
Facebook before it was Facebook
Today's cartoon is pretty funny, too.
I first learned HTML using Geocities way back in 1995, building a pretty cool site about Groom Lake and Area 51. When Geocities sent out its notice in 1998 about Yahoo taking it over, I always thought that nothing good would come of it. Sad to say, I was right.
geocities was free.
Personally I preferred Angelfire.
I wonder why my site/page is still at http://uk.geocities.com/xxxxxx
Is the UK Geocities going away too?
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