Live data from Hacker News

Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

money.cnn.com

121–122 of 122 posts

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

#121
post #82
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What users? If Geocities had users to piss off, they wouldn't have needed to shit it down.

Users != revenue. It still had users.

Re: Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)

#122
post #118
post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first actually-online website was on Angelfire. I’ll never see it again, because: 1. It was auto-deleted after a period of inactivity, 2. The Wayback Machine doesn’t know about it, and 3. My local copy was deleted by Microsoft thanks to a bug in Windows. (I was moving a folder across my home network from my old Windows 98SE computer to an XP box, and when the move operation encountered a folder with an accented ch…

What exactly did you have on this website? Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is an act of war. :O!

Well, the oldest I had called “Kids’ Rave Book Reviews” — KRBR for short — and I had started off what I vaguely hoped to be a community project by posting my review of The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm, which I had just re-read in sixth grade.
Post reply on HN