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[[Image:geocities-death-countdown-banner.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Geocities Death Countdown Banner.<ref>http://internetarchaeology.org/death.htm</ref>]] | |||
===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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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> | |||
===Archives=== | |||
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
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
