Brit Canuck
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 REMINDER: GeoCities Closing Down Next Monday 10/26/'09
After many happy years of service, the popular free website-hosting service GeoCities, currently owned by Yahoo!, will be shut down, and its numerous websites will no longer be available, as of next Monday, October 26th, 2009.
GeoCities is the latest victim in a new streamlining initiative by Yahoo that will also see the demise of a number of other services, many of them free, including the popular networking chat service Yahoo! 360.
Yahoo! is replacing GeoCities with a new premium hosting service. It's being advertised as $5 US for the first month and $10 US a month after that, but the fine print reads '12-month term' - a commitment that will set subscribers back by $115 US a year once they sign up.
As usual, this decision is all about making money. 
Shame to see GeoCities go under these circumstances.
The Internet Archive website ( http://www.archive.org ) is working to backup as much as they can from GeoCities sites.
In any event, if you have a favorite GeoCities site, be sure to click and save everything you need from those sites before the end of next weekend.
Thanks to Skipster over on Oldies but Goodies for the heads-up.
Yahoo! GeoCities front page (now closed to new accounts):
http://geocities.yahoo.com
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Re: REMINDER: GeoCities Closin Down Next Monday 10/26/'09
Brit Canuck,
I'm glad somebody liked "Geo****ties".
My experience with them starting in 1997, fostered my rule that "life is too short to fool with GeoCities."  Annoying popups, and the slowest loading I remember back in the days of dial-up. I'm surprised it lasted this long.
NOT surprised that Yahoo is jumbling up their roster. 360 is going the way of Yahoo Clubs (now Groups). Yahoo Messenger is about all I still use now, and it has problems sometimes.
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Re: REMINDER: GeoCities Closin Down Next Monday 10/26/'09
Ah - I know it had closed to new accounts but I didn't know the whole thing was being canned - thanks for the heads up on that.
I wonder how long it will be before they pull the plug on the groups facility???
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