Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities

[Thomas Veil]

I thought Lycos had folded. How the hell is still running?

Don

And would you believe Excite is still around?

 

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What do you have against Facebook? I understand why people dislike it when people post their entire life on it, but it's a good way to stay in touch with people, especially family that lives far away. Don

Because its dumb. Well, but that's not a good enough reason, heres a couple of 'em.
Stay in touch huh? Well, if you need to talk to me, there is something now a days called the cellphone. What's that, you do not have x friend's cellphone? There is the e-mail. You want to chat? There is AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc, etc..... There is no need for Facebook. Want to share pictures and stuff? Flickr is your answer. Want to post that juicy gossip from last party? Nothing like a good blog on Blogger or somewhere else.

So you want less simplicity and convergence? I guess you hate the iPhone and similar devices?

Geocities was great. I don't know how such a website/service suddenly becomes obsolete or/and irrelevant, but apparently it did.