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Yahoo to Shut Down GeoCities This Fall
Search Engine Journal ^ | 2009-07-10 | Julie Kent

Posted on 07/20/2009 12:55:05 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it’s not widely used anymore, it’s name still arouses a fond memory in the minds of early adopters. Every once in awhile, a long-dead GeoCities site will even crop up in search results. Yahoo, the current owner of GeoCities, has decided to finally put the sites and the entire service to rest, announcing that GeoCities will cease to function on October 26, 2009.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: geocities; internet; theend; yahoo

1 posted on 07/20/2009 12:55:06 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: ShadowAce

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2 posted on 07/20/2009 12:55:26 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

3 posted on 07/20/2009 1:02:50 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: rabscuttle385

I guess that means I will have to find another hosting site? Yuk, mine has been up since 1996 or so, and it will be a real hassle to redo it.


4 posted on 07/20/2009 1:06:34 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: rabscuttle385
This really is sad. I was a Geocities "homesteader" way back in 1995 and learned how to do html with my first site there. It was a great system.

I've always rued the day when Yahoo bought out Geocities and started charging for extra space and the like, while screwing up its "homestead" friendliness in favor of a more corporate look and feel. It sucked. Now, Yahoo is finally pulling the plug on it, but leaving behind a lot of good web memories.

5 posted on 07/20/2009 1:11:17 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Its kind of sad. I am sure it costs money to upkeep but its like a webarchive being taken offline.


6 posted on 07/20/2009 1:12:49 PM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I agree. Geocities was my first website, too. Yahoo seems to mess up everything it touches, sooner or later.


7 posted on 07/20/2009 1:19:41 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I had a geocities site that I used to host my images. I paid $5/month for 7-8 years until they upped it to $8 a year or so ago.

When I got the notice that they were taking it down, I moved all my stuff over one of my other domains. It was something I should have done many years ago, but geocites was just convenient. Oh well, cya.


8 posted on 07/20/2009 1:25:16 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: rabscuttle385

Oh great! What’s next, Livermore’s Centennial Light?

Have they no respect for History, Tradition, or (egads!) the Internet itself???


9 posted on 07/20/2009 1:48:09 PM PDT by papasmurf (RnVjayB5b3UsIDBiYW1hLCB5b3UgcGllY2Ugb2Ygc2hpdCBjb3dhcmQh)
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To: rabscuttle385

Very first websites were on GeoCities.

Once I learned how DNS and web hosting worked, I put my site on my desktop with web sharing. I now run my own multimedia web server with email, streaming, forums, and blogs on a 486/66 with Ubuntu. I leave the mySQL stuff to my 2008 server; mySQL doesn’t play nice with 512 MB of RAM.


10 posted on 07/20/2009 1:54:04 PM PDT by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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To: rabscuttle385

bump


11 posted on 08/24/2009 7:50:59 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery (The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Crap, I had a geocities page back in the day. Sorry to see them going under.


12 posted on 08/24/2009 7:58:16 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I get sick of people bashing Yahoo. Allow me to present the following list of the good things Yahoo has done:


13 posted on 08/24/2009 8:00:28 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Malsua

Can you explain to me how to download/save my geocities site? I am not real sure how to approach the problem, but I don’t want to lose everything.


14 posted on 10/21/2009 10:04:53 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

If you are using Firefox, get the FIREFTP addon, connect and copy the entire contents to your C drive.

For geocities the host is ftp.geocities.com

username and password are your normal login.


15 posted on 10/21/2009 12:34:05 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

Wow, thank you! That seems like something even I can do! :)


16 posted on 10/21/2009 12:44:36 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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