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: From Wikipedia:
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: On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it
: would be closing its United States branch of
: GeoCities, and stopped accepting new
: registrations, though the existing GeoCities
: accounts remained active.[3] In late June
: 2009, Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page
: to indicate: "GeoCities is closing on
: October 26, 2009."[2] GeoCities joined
: a long list of other services discontinued
: by Yahoo such as: Farechase, My Web, Audio
: Search, Pets, Live, Kickstart, Briefcase and
: Yahoo! for Teachers.[18]
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: With the closure of GeoCities in the U.S.,
: Yahoo! no longer offers free webpage hosting
: except in Japan.[19] Yahoo! encouraged users
: to upgrade their accounts to the fee-based
: Yahoo! Web Hosting service.[20][21]
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: Rupert Goodwins, the editor of ZDNet,
: perceived the closure of GeoCities as an end
: of an era; he described GeoCities as
: "the first proof that you could have
: something really popular and still not make
: any money on the internet."[19] Vijay
: Mukhi, an internet and cyber security expert
: quoted in the Business Standard, criticized
: Yahoo's handling of GeoCities; Mukhi
: described GeoCities as "a lost
: opportunity for Yahoo! They could have made
: it a Facebook if they wanted." Rich
: Skrenta, the CEO of Blekko, posted on
: Twitter an offer to take over GeoCities from
: Yahoo! in exchange for 50% future revenue
: share.[22]
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: In response to the closure, rival webhosting
: services began to compete for the web sites
: leaving GeoCities. For instance, German web
: host Jimdo started the "Lifeboat for
: GeoCities" service to encourage
: GeoCities users to put their websites on
: Jimdo.[11][23] Geocities-closing.com,
: started by GeoCities competitor uCoz, is a
: similar project launched to save GeoCities
: websites.[24]
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: Wow....that's interesting...wonder what
: happened?
: I could swear I was just there on Tony's
: site recently but so much has gone on since
: October that could have been the last time I
: was there.
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: Thanks Mel.
: Such a shame since Joanna(that correct?) had
: alot of good stuff...hope she starts another
: one soon and lets his fans know.
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: I can't speak for Tony's website but all
: Geocities websites were shut down and
: removed in October, I think. I got e-mails
: about the impending shut-down for months
: before it happened. I just checked Terry's
: old site and it's gone.
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: What happened to Tony's Geocities website?
: I was just there a couple of weeks ago and
: now when I tried to look at it the site has
: "closed".
: I know the webmistress had been sick before
: ....did she get sick again and have to give
: it up? She had some great stuff on there and
: even said Tony was going to do a fan
: "chat" soon......
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