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- <h1>Geocities</h1>
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- <strong>GeoCities</strong> is the name of a defunct web hosting service, that was first founded in 1994-11 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was first known as <strong>Beverly Hills Internet (BHI)</strong> for a short time, until it was renamed to "GeoCities". On the 1999-01-28, Geocities was acquired by Yahoo!; at that time it was the third-most visited website on the World Wide Web. The "cities" were named after real cities or regions according to their content-for example, computer-related sites were placed in "SiliconValley" and those dealing with entertainment were assigned to "Hollywood"-hence the name of the site. Shortly after its acquisition by Yahoo!, this practice was abandoned in favour of using the Yahoo! member names in the URLs.
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- In 2009, approximately ten years after Yahoo! bought GeoCities, the company announced that it would be shutting down the service in the USA in 2009-10. At the time there were at least 38 million user-built pages on GeoCities before it was shut down. Nine-years-later in October 2018-10, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing GeoCities Japan at the end of 2019-03. These services weren't actually costing Yahoo! much money at all, with the main reason for the shutdown being poor management by Yahoo!.
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- <h2>References</h2>
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- <li><a href="https://thewikion.neocities.org/wiki/geocities.html">Original wiki article about this subject</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities">Geocities</a></li>
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