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Web users farewell GeoCities as Yahoo pulls the plug


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GEOCITIES used to be the place many people made their first website, but now it's shutting up shop.

Yahoo announced it is closing GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages, which it acquired 10 years ago during the dotcom boom.

read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,...5014239,00.html

source: NEWS.com.au

http://www.hartnell.edu/library/word_web_d.../GeocitiesA.htm

images: Fair Use/schools.becta.org.uk/geocities.org

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Kind of glad to see it go.

Now days most of the sites were virus ridden.

I am an acquaintance with the founder - he did ok in the $$$sale. His latest project is the OV Guide

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interesting mate..his OV Guide site has the same sort of feel as geocities did...

it's a very good search engine for movies and the like

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