[funsec] Goodbye GeoCities

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

Really cool! (Chris posted this link already)

My favourite is the section 'Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or better at 800x480' :)

Juha-Matti

Larry Seltzer [larry at larryseltzer.com] kirjoitti: 
> Check out the tribute on www.xkcd.com
> 
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_seltzer at ziffdavis.com 
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org]
> On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 7:41 AM
> To: funsec at linuxbox.org
> Subject: [funsec] Goodbye GeoCities
> 
> "Geocities, Yahoo's original hosting service and the engine that drove
> the enormous proliferation in personal websites in the early to mid
> nineties,
> closes today. The websites will be deleted and the data will not be
> recoverable.
> 
> With a Geocities or Angelfire (who still offer all of 20Mb of free
> hosting, by the way) account pictures of cats, children,
> craft projects or favourite bands could be published by individuals well
> before blogs or photo sharing sites were thought of."
> --clip--
> 
> http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/100004057/geocities-c
> loses-today/
> 
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/
> 
> Juha-Matti
>