Believe it or not, the webpage service Geocities is still alive—but not for long. Fifteen years after its original creation, Yahoo has announced that it will shut down the service later this year. An ...

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On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on one of the Web’s original site-hosting services. It was an ignominious end—and some would say a fitting one.

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GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old. GeoCities had suffered a long and ...

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(CNN)-- The flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes and omnipresent "Under Construction" signs of GeoCities are no more. The personal Web-hosting site, launched in 1995 and owned by Yahoo Inc.

Right now, you can download the bulk of Geocities in a single, giant 652GB file over BitTorrent. The seminal free web-hosting site has been off the tubes since last year, when its owner, Yahoo, shut ...

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It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as ...