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Title: GeoCities closes forever Post by: Alex on October 26, 2009, 10:37:06 AM GeoCities closes forever
Once the third most visited domain on the Internet, the now ailing GeoCities will shut down permanently on October 26. GeoCities was founded in 1994 and was one of the first services offering an easy to use interface, which allowed 'mum and dad' users to publish their own websites easily. GeoCities was considered revolutionary for its time, being one of the first free hosting services on the internet and one of the first to sort domains via their topic, e.g. finance, travel or fashion. Unfortunately, as the popularity of GeoCities took off the topics available for hosting became many, and the site increased in complexity. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/8ZnwWyd8JgE/geocities-closes-forever |