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28-Oct-09 07:32
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matt matt's avatar Rank: gold
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All good things must come to an end I suppose!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1359223/Geocities-Shutting-Down-Today?art_pos=32

Matt

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28-Oct-09 09:20
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simon simon's avatar Rank: gold
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It's a sad day!

Check out this glorious tribute:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/26/xkcds-eye-watering-g.html

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28-Oct-09 21:57
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matt matt's avatar Rank: gold
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I saw that. Good effort! I swear the "spinning E-mail" symbol is from one of our old ImageKits, or it might be from Andy's Art Attack - remember him? http://www.brucelevick.com/2009/04/02/blast-from-the-past-andys-art-attack/

I did actually see some quite beautiful GeoCities pages occasionally, so it wasn't all "under construction" signs and blink tags. Also GeoCities really reduced the barrier to entry to web publishing for so many people. In some small part of my being, I miss it already.

Matt

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