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Yahoo Geocities Shutting Down on 26th October 2009
08 Oct 2009
Geocities, the free web hosting service from Yahoo is shutting down its services from 26th October 2009. It was home to the first websites of a host of users - who later became techies and moved on to other platforms.
Geocities pages was the MySpace of the 90's with the a plethora of absolutely whacky user web sites complete with an overdose of primary colors and glittering text hosted on it.
Geocities was originally created by David Bohnett and John Rezner in 1994; it was later bought by Internet giant Yahoo in an astronomical $2 billion dollar deal.
Almost 10 years after the buyout, Yahoo seems to have had enough and is on the verge of shutting down Geocities.
Yahoo just gave its users a hint that the service will be shut down and that people might want to "relocate" their stuff to other locations - preferably Yahoo's own hosting service. While they had not given a last date back then, three months later, Yahoo has finalized Oct. 26 as the day when one of Internet's most used, and loved website goes offline, Forever.
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yahoo, geocities, web hosting service
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