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Geocities Is Dead, Long Live Geocities

By Adam Frucci Published October 26, 2009

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Today’s the day: Yahoo has officially killed the once-ubiquitous free hosting service, taking down thousands of the ugliest and least-updated pages on the web. It’s really the end of an era. A moment of silence, please. [ComputerWorld via Daily What]

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