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vwebworld

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Apr 23, 2009 2:22 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing Geocities one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion. (source TechCrunch)

~Roland

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ArcherTC

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Apr 24, 2009 6:06 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Awesome little bit of history there. I love the links in the comments section to the worst Geocities sites. Good for a chuckle!

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CraigL

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Apr 24, 2009 9:37 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Isn`t it amazing that only 10 years can go by, and something becomes antique. But I guess that`s the normal course for an entirely new form of technology like the Web. I was thinking about AOL, Compuserve, Alta Vista, and all the other amazing and fabulous new things that have vanished.

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Apr 26, 2009 4:10 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Hey, some of those are still around. Don`t declare them dead yet! ;-)

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CraigL

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Apr 27, 2009 2:11 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Oh....right, I forgot. Like Chrysler is still around. :-)

ChristineG

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Apr 29, 2009 12:30 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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As @danschawbel mentioned on Twitter, "Growth in blogs in the US + The fall of Geocities = the blog replacing the traditional web page"

Sign of the times.

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moondoggie

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Jul 08, 2009 10:43 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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Why would Yahoo do that? ... It was a good way of introducing people to their payed web hosting. I really wonder about Yahoo sometimes. Google on the other hand seems to be moving in the right direction with all those cool aps. I do like what yahoo recently did with their Profiles though adding the twitter type status and the intregated blog with friends feature.

WebJunky

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Jul 09, 2009 7:54 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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the inevitable finally happened

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Jul 10, 2009 7:42 PM ET Quote Report Abuse

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AOL announced this week that they finally were shutting down CompuServe. (sigh) I remember first getting my feet wet on a bulletin-board system (BBS) with CompuServe. And for a while, you couldn`t get tech support from anywhere other than CS.

Geocities, Prodigy, Compuserve, Alta-Vista... I guess the computer industry is progressing. Maybe they`ll bring back DOS?

vwebworld

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Jul 11, 2009 2:23 AM ET Quote Report Abuse

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http://www.altavista.com/ - still kickin`

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