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04-24-2009, 08:45 AM
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#1 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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| GeoCities Finally Bites the Dust
RIP, GeoCities. Thanks for the badly animated backgrounds and the HTML 3.0 memories. Quote: GeoCities demolished
Yahoo! says! bye! to! $4bn! dotcom! relic!
Yahoo! plans to close GeoCities, the dot com era build-your-own-website operation it paid $4.6bn in stock for in 1999.
In a posting to its help pages yesterday, Yahoo! said it would stop accepting new GeoCities members immediately, then turn off the lights "later this year."
"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," Yahoo! said.
GeoCities prospered in the early days of the consumer web as an easy way for tech newcomers to build and host their own web page. It has long-since been rendered obsolete by newer social networking sites and improved web design applications.
Yahoo! promised to offer help to GeoCities users who want to preserve their data nearer closure time. ®
| EDIT: Source is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/geocities_bye/ | 
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04-24-2009, 09:07 AM
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#2 | | Zombie Mod
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I think I had a geocities page back in the day. I thought it was gone a long time ago.
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04-24-2009, 09:34 AM
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#3 | | ninja edits your posts without your knowledge
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Originally Posted by Presto  I think I had a geocities page back in the day. I thought it was gone a long time ago. | Geocities went away with AsianAvenue, apt107, angelfire and all that crap.
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04-24-2009, 09:54 AM
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#4 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Hahaha I can't believe my geocities site I made back in grade 10 is still up!
It's got to have been at least 12 years since i've touched it.
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04-24-2009, 10:25 AM
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#5 | | Banned By Establishment
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Wow.... geocites + angelfire were awesome... the xanga before xanga.
That being said, asianave still sucks, and I still have my hat, bag keychain, and cd somewhere lol
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04-24-2009, 10:31 AM
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#6 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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04-24-2009, 10:43 AM
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#7 | | The RS Freebie guru
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It's not dead yet... it's just been placed on life support, pending death in the near future.
My girlfriend's little anime site she made is still available on Geocities as well, and that was from over ten years ago...
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04-24-2009, 11:39 AM
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#8 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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ads are still worth billions of dollars...
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04-24-2009, 12:21 PM
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#9 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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is xanga still up? I remember making a geocitoes site back when I was in highschool. Good memories
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04-24-2009, 03:50 PM
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#10 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Xanga is still pretty active! I just found out the other day when I was looking back at some of my high school stuff for kicks ahhah  | |
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04-24-2009, 03:57 PM
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#11 | | Banned (ABWS)
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i had a geo cities reboot fan page.. it was awesome
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04-24-2009, 05:50 PM
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#12 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Wow, geocities was so old school. I remember using them during my compuserve days, lol.
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04-24-2009, 06:14 PM
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#13 | | The RS Anchorman
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No!!!!! I Learned how to make a website through geocities back then around sometime in mid-late nineties. Pretty much abandoned on my own website eons ago  and the stupid mb cap.......
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04-24-2009, 06:36 PM
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#14 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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I remember geocities
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04-24-2009, 07:50 PM
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#15 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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hahah my site from 04 is still up
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04-24-2009, 09:06 PM
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#16 | | MiX iT Up!
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post yar geocities urls !! lets give them some hits before it hits the dust!!
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04-24-2009, 09:24 PM
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#17 | | Banned (ABWS)
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lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site.
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04-24-2009, 10:26 PM
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#18 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld post yar geocities urls !! lets give them some hits before it hits the dust!! | +1!!!!  Quote:
Originally Posted by orange7 lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site. | lol what?!?!
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04-24-2009, 10:49 PM
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#19 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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i remember making my first AA account in grade 5 ten years ago lol
i had a dragon layout...and there was 6o4 in my screename 
ditched that for xanga..then two years ago i ditched that for facebook. Now i dont even touch facebook.
What's next?
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04-24-2009, 11:28 PM
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#20 | | Banned (ABWS)
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Originally Posted by orange7 lol.. if asainavenue is a porn site. | Quote:
Originally Posted by +Kardboard+ +1!!!!
lol what?!?! |
k... i've misssplet the name..
but i remember if you misspell the name by 1 letter, you get a porn site
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