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The Last Dinosaur

Apr 23, 2009
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History, Technology

If you'd been meaning to start that free webpage on Geocities (now known as Yahoo! Geocities), I regret to inform you that the moment has passed.

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Of course, I don't regret that as much as Yahoo!, which paid almost three billion dollars for Geocities ten years ago.  Fortunately, while new Geocities pages will not be created, the old pages remain, including these, picked at random:

The Brisbane insect page, by the way, is excellent.

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  1. Chris Berez  •  Apr 23, 2009 @2:06 pm

    When I first read about this earlier today, my first thought was, "Wait, Geocities still exists?"

    The last dinosaur indeed.

  2. Al  •  Apr 23, 2009 @5:18 pm

    Webrings! I remember those.

  3. Al  •  Apr 23, 2009 @5:30 pm

    Huh. Angelfire is still around. And Lycos. That's surprising.

  4. Chris Berez  •  Apr 23, 2009 @6:02 pm

    Angelfire hosts one of my favorite websites of all time, so it'd had better stick around for a bit.

    And holy crap, I'd completely forgotton about Webrings.

  5. Chris  •  Apr 23, 2009 @7:23 pm

    It saddens me to think that eventually nobody will get this joke.

  6. Marco  •  Apr 24, 2009 @5:59 am

    I keep a geocities page. May be I'm a dinosaur too! Some free webhostings as tripod puts bad taste adds on your page.

    Geocities had a decent web hosting with small and discrete adds. May be they fail not having agressive adds selling as google does.

    For individuals or small bussiness is a good service, I simply buyed a domain name and redirect trafic to my free a geocities page…