*Remember how huge that "place" once was? Maybe we're lucky that actual "cities"
can't be folded-up with such sublime ease.
Note that Yahoo stock goes up as it obliterates its digital heritage.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yahoo24-2009apr24,0,3355990.story
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Yahoo pointed GeoCities users to its paid Web-hosting service. The company will give users more details on saving GeoCities' data later this year. (((I'd like to know what percentage of these "users"
save anything, and how many have simply left already, abandoning all data in place.)))
U.S. visitors to GeoCities dropped 25% to 12 million in March from the year-ago period, according to research firm ComScore Inc. in Reston, Va. (((Off to the social-media sites, which will join
GeoCities in the virtual tomb in due course.)))
Other services Yahoo has closed include travel-search site FareChase and online storage service Briefcase.
Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., rose 7 cents to $14.55.
(((The Los Angeles Times, the source of this story, is also in grave condition.
I may have to start a special "dead media" category which traces the decline of all forms of "media," including the very concept of "media.")))
