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Sunday, May 3, 2009

RIP Geocities

I used to have a page on Yahoo! Geocities about ten years ago. One of my first attempts at establishing a position on the rapidly expanding information highway as the internet was fondly known. While a useful exercise in HTML, I have long since given up writing my own pages, mainly because there are so many services now for creating online publications or profiling oneself to a larger audience. But Geocities was one of the first mainstream methods of establishing an online presence, whether it be an online diary, pet profiles or social commentary.
Ars Technica pays tribute to Geocities which is being shut down by Yahoo after 15 years. Yahoo! itself has a piece here about its origins. Luckily there are efforts underway to preserve the orginal sites, since these very early days of personal web spaces and net presence are of some historical significance.

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