Geocities at End of an Era?
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090424/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_geocities
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a Web site publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock.
The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new GeoCities accounts will not be available and gives them the option to sign up for Yahoo's Web hosting service for $5.98 a month.
Damn, now I may have to archive what's left of my old site. >:( They obviously want to trim out the other free services to cut operating costs.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a Web site publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock.
The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new GeoCities accounts will not be available and gives them the option to sign up for Yahoo's Web hosting service for $5.98 a month.
Damn, now I may have to archive what's left of my old site. >:( They obviously want to trim out the other free services to cut operating costs.