Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999) • Hacker News Board

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by kwestro » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:45 AM UTC

everettForth wrote: post #10

AOL bought Bebo for $850M in 2008, and then sold it 2 years later for $10M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo

...and Bebo filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/05/bebo-fi...

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by jeep » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:47 AM UTC

What's interesting to me is that the advertisement is working. Backwards comparability!

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by suyash » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:53 AM UTC

Edit the title to not confuse people please.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by suyash » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:53 AM UTC

Edit the title to not confuse people please.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by eurleif » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:56 AM UTC

hristov wrote: post #6

This is very relevant now because rumors are that Yahoo is about to buy Tumblr for over a billion dollars. If they only took care of Geocities they would not have to buy it all over again in Tumblr form.

Geocities worked quite differently from Tumblr. How would you transition from one format to the other, without pissing off current users?

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by steven2012 » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:56 AM UTC

I have to say, this really made me laugh pretty heartily, given the rumors of tumblr being bought by Yahoo.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by jebeng » Fri, May 17, 2013, 5:58 AM UTC

Geocities was my first website!

As long as no one ever sees it/knows it was me who made what was quite possibly the ugliest website in the world, all I'll have is fond memories.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by jussij » Fri, May 17, 2013, 6:01 AM UTC

leeoniya wrote: post #12

wow, sounds like GeoCities is really going places. i hope it works out for them!

And the other two companys mentioned, Excite and AltaVista.

They sound like great places to work.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by leeoniya » Fri, May 17, 2013, 6:01 AM UTC

if anyone's feeling nostalgic, http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

try amazon.com :)

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

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Post by Svip » Fri, May 17, 2013, 6:01 AM UTC

eurleif wrote: post #25

hristov wrote: post #6

This is very relevant now because rumors are that Yahoo is about to buy Tumblr for over a billion dollars. If they only took care of Geocities they would not have to buy it all over again in Tumblr form.

Geocities worked quite differently from Tumblr. How would you transition from one format to the other, without pissing off current users?

Because closing Geocities doesn't piss off current users? If you ask me, Yahoo! should just have done it and damn the consequences!

In fairness; regardless of what Yahoo! did with Geocities, they'd still end up buying Tumblr.