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Fare Thee Well Geocities

10/26/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Industry

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Today marks a sad day in Internet lore as Yahoo! has shuttered the digital doors of the long-time personal web hosting service Geocities.  Geocities began in late 1994  and was one of the early ways for aspiring mavens of the world wide web to post their elaborately hokey tributes to the occult teachings of Aleister Crowley complete with rotating and blinking Unicursal Hexigram icons with horrendous purple backgrounds.  It was this potential for the rampant display of obsessive nerdery that led Yahoo! to purchase the service for $3.57 billion in 1999, effectively encouraging people to start About Me pages and Ronnie James Dio fan sites also awash in flashing and spinning icons. (more…)

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