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Posted on April 23, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: Good night Geocities, we won’t miss your crappy service

  • GeoCities is survived by two cousins, Angelfire and Tripod, along with an uncle, Jeeves.
    All three are believed to be terminally ill.
  • JR Raphael • In a PC World blog post on the demise of Geocities. You still remember it, right? It was a way that you could put yourself on the Internet for free with a giant ad on top. 15 years in, its owners, Yahoo, have chosen to pull the plug on the useless piece of junk they paid $4.7 billion for a decade ago. Mainly because, well, there are other places you can go to talk about yourself on the Internet. • source

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  • Pete

    I was looking around for a place to setup a webpage “free” that can be found with a search engine. In fact I found your blog in the first search I tried. Anyway I have a facebook page, and group, but I find there seem to be no way to let like minded people find your group except through friends on facebook. I’ll take a look at Angelfire, and Tripod.….. One of them is owned by AT&T if I remember correctly. Thanks for posting your blog.… While facebook and twitter are the hot IM systems of the day, sooner or later webpage communities for cell phones will rule the roost. Which ever company gets there first will be dominate in the wireless world.

  • Pete

    I was looking around for a place to setup a webpage “free” that can be found with a search engine. In fact I found your blog in the first search I tried. Anyway I have a facebook page, and group, but I find there seem to be no way to let like minded people find your group except through friends on facebook. I’ll take a look at Angelfire, and Tripod.….. One of them is owned by AT&T if I remember correctly. Thanks for posting your blog.… While facebook and twitter are the hot IM systems of the day, sooner or later webpage communities for cell phones will rule the roost. Which ever company gets there first will be dominate in the wireless world.

 

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