<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/927373e3-f425-40d7-842e-3799ec9e8e71/53571835-A1B4-40FD-83CC-3BAB44488B3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/DD958C2A-53E5-449B-8757-1E86167942D2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/">Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously <A href="http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html"> closing<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.78/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> <A href="http://geocities.yahoo.com/">GeoCities,<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.78/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for <A href="http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-completes-GeoCities-acquisition/2100-1023_3-226485.html">$2.87 billion<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.78/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/">GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/"><P>There are plenty of other Website creation and hosting services out there, including blog platforms such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad, as well as Website creation and hosting services such as Ning, Webs, Jimdo, Snapages, Weebly, and countless more. GeoCities never really kept up with the times, but always remained a decent pageview generator.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/">One of the pioneers of web-hosting sites, GeoCities gave users personal publishing tools and created “neighborhoods” within its web platform for users to be able to create pages, add a picture, text, a guest book and a website counter. Long before MySpace, Geocities was known as a place where teenagers, college students, and eventually others could impose their own garish taste upon the rest of the world.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53571835-A1B4-40FD-83CC-3BAB44488B3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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