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...Marshall Project) — Houston man sells dozens of 3D-printed guns at city’s first gun buyback (Chron) — Estimating temperatures using grape harvest dates (Open Mind / Wordpress) — A Q&A with the founder of GeoCities...
...By the time we’d gone from GeoCities to Facebook, via the messy MySpace, our personal corners of the web looked and acted in the same way....
...The paper cited above would probably be a lot less impressive if its starting point had been to scrape 2008’s other most popular websites, which included MySpace, Geocities and Microsoft Live Spaces....
...It’s a shame, because this is an enjoyable book that hits on an interesting question: how did today’s politicians, bankers and business leaders shape the internet, and how did sites such as GeoCities, eBaum...
...Technology In the early 2000s, if you wanted a presence on the web, you had to build it, either by writing HTML code or using primitive services such as Yahoo’s GeoCities....
...So fears of another Geocities were assuaged. After that, Verizon, for reasons still unknown to most, decided to buy Yahoo for $4.5bn in 2017....
...Softbank shares rose overnight, needless to say, because it was easier to read US approval of the Sprint and T-Mobile merger as being worth about $10 a share than wander through its Geocities circa 1999...
...In retrospect, we were so lucky, all the teenagers and young adults who strolled across the web’s flat, non-hierarchical landscape, skipping easily from AltaVista, Suck.com and GeoCities to blogs and alt.net...
...The FTC’s first privacy enforcement action was against Geocities in 1998....
...If video were comparable to text-based digital journalism, visually most of it is right around the Geocities, circa 1999, with intrusive ads and ugly text.”...
...Mr Bezos’s 1997 letter records the internet service providers with which Amazon then partnered, which reads like a list of the ailing and the dead: AOL, Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, AtHome...
...The contract setting out Yahoo’s acquisition of GeoCities for $3bn had pooling treatment as a condition to closing....
...“They are big enough to make a go of it and generating users is not the hard thing about building an internet business – just ask MySpace or Geocities,” he said, referring to fast-growing sites that failed...
...-GeoCities merger agreement, breathless commentary of tech executives and Wall Street research houses) as well as some academic evidence that pooling treatment was positively associated with M&A activity...
...Early online destinations such as GeoCities, popular in the 1990s, grouped user-created websites into thematic areas and gave users a way to find and spread information among themselves, says David Karp,...
...list: the iPod dodged a widely-expected sales decline, the first in its eight-year history, thanks to strong demand for the touch.Time to bury another relic of the dotcom boom: Yahoo said it was closing GeoCities...
...Fast forward 10 years and Yahoo has just announced it will shut Geocities later this year. Moonfruit, meanwhile, is one of the few dotcom start-ups from the late 1990s to have survived....
...One internet veteran familiar with the company’s thinking says that similar high hopes led during the internet boom to acquisitions such as Yahoo’s purchase of Geocities for nearly $3bn: who is to say today...
...For some of the stupidest ideas you’ve ever heard: portals for left-handed sports lovers, Geocities wannabes, even calendar sites. As an aside, I invested in a calendar site, Yourday.com....
...■ Geocities: A hold-over from the World Wide Web’s ancient past, Geocities began offering customers the chance to set up free personal web pages in 1995. Owned by Yahoo....
...thousands of Indian bloggers were left in the lurch this week after the government’s move to block access to about 17 websites inadvertently affected popular services such as Google’s Blogger and Yahoo’s Geocities...
...the average minutes each one spends on MySpace per month is 184, compared to just four minutes for Geocities....
...s Geocities. The ban - which can be easily circumvented by using third party websites - prompted an angry response from the internet community who described it as boneheaded, clumsy and Pythonesque....
...However from the early reviews, it seems like a simple, almost quaintly old-fashioned Geocities-style service for making and hosting static web pages....
...Personal websites from companies such as GeoCities (later acquired by Yahoo) helped everyday people put up their own sites quickly. Such pages, however, tended toward dullness and infrequent updating....
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