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"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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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===
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Geocities was archived by the Internet Archive.<ref>http://archive.org/web/geocities.php</ref>
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 16 September 2012

Geocities Death Countdown Banner.[1]

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]

References

  1. http://internetarchaeology.org/death.htm
  2. http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities
  3. http://web.archive.org/web/20090427080521/http://help.yahoo.com/l//us//yahoo//geocities//geocities-05.html
  4. http://archive.org/web/geocities.php