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Yahoo! pulling plug on GeoCities
Jared Atchison
October 9, 2009 1:19 PM ET in Tech
It’s no secret that Yahoo! has had one hell of a year. The company was criticized for having no direction, previous CEO Jerry Yang was canned, and negotiations with Microsoft were all over the map. Eventually Carol Bartz was hired. She wasted no time and quickly declared a new direction, patching things up with the boys in Redmond, cutting fat, shutting down services, and pissing off users.
One of those services that didn’t make the cut is our old pal, GeoCities. They will be closing their doors forever on October 26. They were purchased in 1999 for a massive $3.65 billion.
We long for the days when one could sign onto GeoCities, Angelfire, Tripod, or even Homestead. Life just seemed much simpler then. Those were the days when tables were king. Blink and marquee tags were displayed with pride. Being in a “web ring” meant you were legit.
Admit it. You had a GeoCities account–but you couldn’t remember it because the URL they assigned you was something only Rainman could remember. Dare we say they were a piece of Internet culture and history?
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