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Re: Goodbye GeoCities

From: chris () blask org
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:27:11 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:

"Geocities, Yahoo’s original hosting service and the engine that drove the enormous proliferation in personal 
websites in the early to mid nineties, closes today.


Wiki already has it as past-tense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocities) and xkcd is paying homage 
(http://xkcd.com/644/).  [OT: is there anything Randall Munroe can't do?]

Thank god we still have Facebook or there wouldn't be any place left to host overwhelmingly irrelevant data (other than 
funsec :~).

-chris


      

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- Re: Goodbye GeoCities chris (Oct 26)
- Re: Goodbye GeoCities Larry Seltzer (Oct 26)
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