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All 900GB Of GeoCities Will Soon Be Downloadable

8:40AM October 30, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

After killing off GeoCities last year, diehard Homesteaders will release a massive (and slightly unnecessary) 900GB torrent containing every single web page ever hosted by the Yahoo-owned company. Just think of all those GIF-laden treats… [Archive Time via TechRadar]


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Tiptoeing Through The Web 1.0 Graveyard

12:40AM July 22, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Sure you remember Dodgeball. But how about Kozmo? SixDegrees? They don’t have much in common except for two things: they’re dead websites, and they’d still be kicking if they’d just timed things better. More »


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Geocities-izer Transports Websites To The Halcyon Days Of 1996

5:40AM April 28, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Geocities might be dead, but its spirit lives on. The Geocities-izer does you the enormous favour of transforming your favourite (or least) website into not just a Geocities page, but a really bad Geocities page. And my god, the music! More »


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Geocities Is Dead, Long Live Geocities

12:48AM October 27, 2009 | Adam Frucci

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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RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed

11:20AM April 24, 2009 | John Mahoney

In 1999 I made my first webpage on GeoCities. It was so I could trade concert tapes with strangers on the Internet. Now I’m sad to report that GeoCities is finally dead. So let’s reminisce.

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