Difference between revisions of "Geocities"
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===Definition=== | ===Definition=== | ||
| − | + | "GeoCities was a once very popular web hosting service founded in 1994 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999. Marked by its once-generous allotment of 15 megabytes and the free (with added advertisements) price, it was at one point the 3rd most-browsed site on the World Wide Web".<ref>http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities</ref> | |
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===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
| + | Geocities was shut down by Yahoo! in April 2009.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090427080521/http://help.yahoo.com/l//us//yahoo//geocities//geocities-05.html</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Archives=== | ||
| + | Geocities was archived by the Internet Archive.<ref>http://archive.org/web/geocities.php</ref> | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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| + | [[Category:Book Pages]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Marked for Editing]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 16 September 2012
Definition
"GeoCities was a once very popular web hosting service founded in 1994 and purchased by Yahoo in 1999. Marked by its once-generous allotment of 15 megabytes and the free (with added advertisements) price, it was at one point the 3rd most-browsed site on the World Wide Web".[2]
Death
Geocities was shut down by Yahoo! in April 2009.[3]
Archives
Geocities was archived by the Internet Archive.[4]
