Yahoo shutting down Geocities

andrewwski · 2009-04-23T02:52:50+00:00

Yikes. One of the, if not the, biggest free website hosts will be gone later this year. The amount of stuff on Geocities is enormous. This means a ton of conten

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GGuy5: Member; Posts: 161; Joined: March 24th, 2009, 1:37 pm; Division: B; State: TN; Has thanked: 0; Been thanked: 0

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Post by GGuy5 » April 25th, 2009, 11:38 am

either what i said or yahoo itself is gonna close
stuff on yahoo keeps getting slower and sssssllllowwweeerrr (i have an e-mail account there)

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Post by binary010101 » April 27th, 2009, 3:56 pm

Didn't Google offer to buy out Yahoo a while ago?

And now, guess what!

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Post by binary010101 » April 27th, 2009, 3:58 pm

Yahoo is currently just barring new users from signing up to the service.

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Post by eyeball138 » May 23rd, 2009, 10:17 am

Dark Sabre wrote:lol...I think I already moved over all the working and worthwhile links. I was just mourning its final death.

Is this the second SOSC? http://web.archive.org/web/200009012350 ... cioly.org/

There's also still no specific date for when Geocities is closing.

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Post by fmtiger124 » May 25th, 2009, 12:28 pm

GGuy5 wrote:i think Google is going to buy out Yahoo

that might violate anti-trust acts also

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