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Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities

by Brad Linder on April 23, 2009 at 03:00 PM

Yahoo! is slowly killing off some of its service that I kind of forgot it had. In January, the company announced it would be pulling the plug on Yahoo! Briefcase, an online file storage site that was state of the art 10 years ago when it offered 30MB of web based storage, but which hasn't really been updated since. Today Yahoo! is hammering the nail in the coffin of GeoCities, a web site building service that hasn't been updated in nearly as long.

Yahoo! has already stopped accepting new account registrations, but existing GeoCities pages won't be pulled down until later this year.

The company hasn't offered a simple path for migrating your data yet, but Yahoo! is suggesting users upgrades to paid Yahoo! web hosting accounts. There are no plans to offer a free web hosting service in the future.

[via Mashable]

Tags: geocities, web-hosting, yahoo

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ahutsonApr 23rd 2009 4:02PM

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Oh wow. I'd forgotten about GeoCities. Back in the day before Myspace this is what people used to assault your senses with blaring music and seizure inducing visuals.

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CharaxApr 23rd 2009 4:02PM

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Damn it, Geocities was my first host, and a pretty damn good one for a beginner.

Oh well, better warn my Geocities-using friends about this.

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aanidaaniApr 23rd 2009 11:58PM

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Yeah, I remember using GeoCities to make my first website 10 years ago... I can't believe it's been that long.

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Steve PortigalApr 23rd 2009 4:16PM

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Thank goodness. I've had a site up there for years - http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/6904/ - that I can not remember the password to (I think it was my first website) and I would love to have it taken down. Looks like my wish will be granted!

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