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Yahoo shutters GeoCities — my eyeballs are grateful

Anthony Ha, VentureBeat04.23.2009
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Yahoo has announced that it plans to shut down free web-hosting service GeoCities, which it acquired for $3.6 billion a decade ago. My first response to the news was, “Wait, GeoCities is still around?” The service has fallen far from its heyday in the late ’90s. I don’t know anyone with a... (Read more)

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