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GeoCities Closing: Yahoo GeoCities To Shut Down October 26

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:25 PM ET

Geocities

Computerworld Blogs:

GeoCities, 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 the annals of time.

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GeoCities, 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.... Fo...
GeoCities, 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.... Fo...
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skatoolaki
Passionate, fiery walking contradiction.
10:18 AM on 10/26/2009
My first ever - and many subsequent first - websites were hosted on Geocities which I joined in 1997 when I first started using the Internet. Thankfully I have saved them, backed up on my computer, but I will be sad to see these beginning phase of web design and websites go away from the Internet. So glad someone has decided to archive it all.
09:35 AM on 10/26/2009
Amazing that it lasted as long as it did. Great business, no revenue model and free to users.
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MaxPowerXP
11:06 PM on 10/25/2009
MySpace is the Geocities of the 21st century
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Katzencats
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
04:08 PM on 10/25/2009
I have to shed a tear for the passing of GeoCities. I never had a site there (my first built from scratch was at Angelfire), but knew plenty of people who did. A lot of the sites were help sites for how to do your own website (tips & tricks), Paint Shop Pro tutorials & "tube" sites, generally people passing on their new found knowledge to another crop of newbies.

I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise, after Yahoo quit supplying server space to its own Yahoo Groups, but with the drop in storage space over the years, one would think it shouldn't be a problem. Ah, well - all good things come to an end.
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02:58 PM on 10/25/2009
How soon will Twitter be following this lead?
12:17 PM on 10/26/2009
Hopefully, soon.
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proudloudlib
"I'm not deaf. I'm ignoring you."
03:03 PM on 10/26/2009
Hey, if you don't like Twitter, I have a solution. Don't use it.
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Feanor
I want my jewels back.
09:58 PM on 10/26/2009
Not actually an option if you visit Huffington Post, as can be seen on this page.