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Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities
Mike writes "It's official: Yahoo is pulling the plug, and GeoCities is dead. GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined. Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and 'lowest-common-denominator design' are believed to have contributed to its demise. GeoCities was 15 years old." There is doubtless a lot of funny and informative stuff on there that's worth saving (not just Jesux, which pudge has now migrated). If some of it belongs to you, perhaps you should move it sometime in the next few months. Update: 04/24 18:10 GMT by T : And if you know some GeoCities page owners who aren't especially computer savvy, you could point out to them how easy it is to slurp down their pages for re-hosting elsewhere.
Good riddance, I say.
Why are you posting this rather than reviewing submissions? Your story selection tends to be terrible. I could anonymously post a story with a link to goatse, and you wouldn't bother checking the link first...
Sorry, just had to get it off my chest!
For example, I search for a new 'hip' band, so they only have a myspace page. Now, try to find the band biography or past tourdates. You won't find it.
This isn't a problem, because there are no new bands that are worth listening to. If they're "hip", I guarantee they're crap.
Just look at American Idol; all these young aspiring singers, and what are they singing? Not new, "hip", music, but old classic music, like the last winner who did a song with ZZ Top, a band that peaked in the early 80s.
Quite simply, no good new band has started out after around 1994.
If you didn't want the advertisements, why didn't you just PAY money to get a hosted service? Oh, that's right, you're a cheap hypocrite bastard. You go screw yourself.
I doubt most of the great scientific or creative geniuses had any interest in html and css, you tool
Your point is the same as mine.
Reading comprehension FTW, fuckwit.