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GeoCities closing

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by HBIC, Apr 23, 2009.

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  1. qazu

    qazu Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, Yahoo just messed the whole place up when they took over :(
     
    qazu, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    qazu Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, Yahoo just messed the whole place up when they took over :(
     
    qazu, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    #43
    I remember having three sites on geocities when I was 14 ! My mates site is still up but not been updated for 15 years !
     
    Whippet75, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    RadioBounce Banned

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    That's too bad, I remember creating a proper crappy website on there about 4 years ago :)
     
    RadioBounce, Apr 24, 2009 IP
  5. RTM

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    #45
    +1 Good riddance.

    I started out on a virtual server back in 1996, and prior to that on a dedicated box sharing an FT1 connection.

    Geocities was always somewhat of an embarrassment. Mind you, so is MySpace... ;)
     
    RTM, Apr 24, 2009 IP
  6. mccomf

    mccomf Active Member

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    I think they want to put more energy into new projects so they can keep up with google.I will miss it anyway.My first crappy web site was with geocities.RIP
     
    mccomf, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    tastysites Well-Known Member

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    #47
    Yes it is a slice of nostalgia for sure ... Geocities and Tripod competing as the free easy spot to make a site ... one of our school assigments was to choose 1 of them and make a site.
     
    tastysites, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    justinlorder Peon

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    #48
    I guess it is due to the economy environment.
     
    justinlorder, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    #49
    The question is - was it outcompeted by Blogger and Squidoo, or is it just a huge liability that they are happy to get rid of?
     
    Oberon, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    peepin2me Well-Known Member

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    #50
    Can't they just sell it off to someone instead of closing it! Even if it doesn't rake in a lot of moolah, my guess is that it would at least be breaking even!
     
    peepin2me, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    #51
    so sad, i remember my first website, it was on geocities.
     
    tmbejoy, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    #52
    Not only geocities, yahoo also going to close around 10 of its services
     
    Vebtools, Apr 24, 2009 IP
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    #53
    Is not too surprising, myspace has over 180 million users, facebook has close to 200 million users.

    geocities wasnt changing with the time when other social networks and publishers developed
     
    ReachConnectionSolutions, Apr 26, 2009 IP
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    cowsgonemadd3 Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, well there are TONS of other free and better web hosts than geocities out there anyways so nothing to really cry over other than the fact is was a old service that could have been better but was not taken care of.
     
    cowsgonemadd3, Apr 26, 2009 IP
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    #55
    Great, now we can lose a good chunk of spam sites on the web :p

    But it really will suck for all the noob admins who use geocities consistently. Many probably will not know how to back up and move their site, much less anything about looking for a new host.
     
    ksb2050, Apr 26, 2009 IP
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    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    Wow... I never thought Geocities is still exist before. I thought it was already dead. :D

    I still remember my first website was made on Geocities. What a day.

    - Dynashox -
     
    dynashox, Apr 26, 2009 IP
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    #57
    Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal home page service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the Web that's largely been replaced by social networks and blogs.
     
    KL1528, Apr 27, 2009 IP
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    #58
    I got my Start at GeoCities around 2001-2002.

    Kinda Sad to see it go even tho I haven't used them in like 4 years. :(

    -Chris
     
    ChrisMiller, Apr 27, 2009 IP
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    #59
    I had over 20 of my websites hosted on geocities about 9 years ago. I have totally forgot about them thou :) It was one of the best in its time.
     
    SEO.maniac, Apr 27, 2009 IP
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    #60
    I just use geocities for any java script file :D
     
    paco83, Apr 27, 2009 IP
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