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Posted on 04-23-09 04:17:48 PM Link | Quote
 
Dunno whether this belongs here or in Action McNews, but...

Yahoo will be shutting down GeoCities sometime this summer. (via TechRadar)

They've already stopped accepting new signups. Apparently they want people to move to another Yahoo service, "Yahoo! Web Hosting"...

Guess everyone who still uses GeoCities had better start saving everything they want to keep.

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Posted on 04-23-09 04:18:51 PM Link | Quote
Wow. That's like...one of the most ancient facets of the Internet going down there.

Lycos still exists, at least.

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Posted on 04-23-09 05:54:05 PM Link | Quote
I didn't even know that GeoCities still existed. I think that when I got my first computer I made a GeoCities web page. It hardly had anything on it and I don't even remember what it was about now .

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Posted on 04-23-09 06:25:57 PM Link | Quote
Bye the 1% of geocitys pages with useful information.


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Posted on 04-24-09 01:25:04 AM Link | Quote
I imagine a lot of them are useful for finding weird tools and utilities for obscure games and programs from that era. It'll be sad that a lot of that stuff will be lost to oblivion. It would be cool if they archived the pages in a more or less read-only state (though, allowing the authors to request them to be taken down, of course.).
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Posted on 04-24-09 02:22:28 AM Link | Quote
Damn...I actually use geocities for hosting my pictures....

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Posted on 04-24-09 02:23:53 AM Link | Quote
Seeya pages full of useless cursor trails and animated .gifs of fireworks.

Anya: I believe it's been said before, but don't you have hosting here? :x

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Posted on 04-24-09 02:24:42 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Sakura
Lycos still exists, at least.

Erm, Tripod.co.uk shut down earlier this year :E

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Posted on 04-24-09 02:25:07 AM Link | Quote
Angelfire?

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Posted on 04-24-09 02:32:22 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Tyty
Anya: I believe it's been said before, but don't you have hosting here? :x


I do? I thought it was just for this.

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Posted on 04-24-09 02:34:14 AM Link | Quote
Goodbye sigmap. It was nice knowing you.
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Posted on 04-24-09 03:19:30 AM Link | Quote
At least it's not going to be taken over by domain squatters with nothing better to do than load your computer up with viruses and block access to the archives.

On the other hand, Yahoo may not be too forgiving with robots.txt, either.

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