GeoCities Closes

One of the reasons I don’t do a lot of promoting on free sites is because there’s no guarantee they’ll be around forever.  I am not saying not to do it … there is some benefit.  But there’s no long term guarantee.

Yahoo had purchased GeoCities in 1999 for a whopping $3.57 billion, offering free web hosting that had advertisements on them.  The technology became outmoded with Facebook and other social networking sites.

GeoCities was around for 15 years, dishing up some truly awful websites and some interesting personal sites.  Personally, I think it was the precursor to Facebook, Squidoo and others and a true pioneer in making the Internet usable for everyone.

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