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Yahoo!? More like Boo hoo!
Today, the Internet giant pulled the plug on WYSIWYG webpage builder Geocities. A Slate article aptly describes the reasoning behind the page’s demise:
“Yahoo’s $3.5 billion purchase of GeoCities in 1999 has been called one of the worst Internet acquisitions of all time. After all, just look at those pages! Brimming with blinking, moving, garishly colored text and animated dancing cats, GeoCities made MySpace look like a bastion of elegance and restraint.”
As an early adopter of Geocities, I shed a solitary tear as many of my first pages have now been laid to rest.
My largest complaint, however, is the company’s failure to allow users to use FTP to download data from their old websites … without first paying for an upgrade to Geocities Plus (doomed as well). Bastards!
