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It’s game over for GeoCities: Today, Yahoo pulls the plug on the free hosting service that grew to become the precursor of the contemporary social network. Originally founded in 1994, GeoCities began offering free home pages to users in 1995 and changed its name to GeoCities in December of that year. Less than two years later it had become one of the most popular destinations on the internet, leading Yahoo to swallow it up in January 1999 for the princely sum of more than $3 billion. That decision would come back to bite Yahoo in the ass, though, thanks to […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/galleries/display/60/60442.jpg