Comments on: Yahoo! Gives Final Notice On Geocities Closure http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alleged Accomplicehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33418 Alleged Accomplice Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:20:16 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33418 Yahoo posted this and many other pages about saving or moving your stuff from geocities. The internet archive is saving all they can according to yahoo. Will they have enough time who knows.Page they have the instructions on here--> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/close-02.html Yahoo posted this and many other pages about saving or moving your stuff from geocities. The internet archive is saving all they can according to yahoo. Will they have enough time who knows.

Page they have the instructions on here–> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/close-02.html

]]> By: Jasehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33312 Jase Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:58:38 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33312 seems yahoo is closing bit by bit, next thing to disappear will be yahoo groups I'd imagine. no one I know uses them anymore and its just spambot type things "posting messages" there. seems yahoo is closing bit by bit, next thing to disappear will be yahoo groups I’d imagine. no one I know uses them anymore and its just spambot type things “posting messages” there.

]]> By: David Mhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33308 David M Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:07:30 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33308 If they made money at it then they would keep it open. They are not obligated to lose money. If they made money at it then they would keep it open. They are not obligated to lose money.

]]> By: David K.http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33294 David K. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:17:00 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33294 Yes, indeed Facebook, et al WILL one day be history. It happens to everything. The next big thing comes out and replaces the old. Yes, indeed Facebook, et al WILL one day be history. It happens to everything. The next big thing comes out and replaces the old.

]]> By: Sharron Fieldhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33292 Sharron Field Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:57:35 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33292 This demonstrates another good reason to host your own domain, should you have a serious website or blog that you don't want to have pulled at the drop of a hat.(There's also the professional-image aspect of the situation to consider too. Who do you take more seriously: The blogger with a freebie-pitch on blogspot.com, or the blogger with their own self-hosted domain who's actually put the effort in to learn how to do it all from scratch?)Thinking way way ahead; yes there's tiny a chance that the hosting company who host the self-hosted blogger's domain could suddenly go out of business too: But in that case the site's safe from all but at worst a few days' downtime while the blogger transferrs their domain to a new host and rebuilds from their personal backups they've taken.(Backup, backup, backup: Yes it applies to bloggers too with regard to the data on their server; although possibly not to so great an extent as it does to computer-users with regard to the data on their box(es).) This demonstrates another good reason to host your own domain, should you have a serious website or blog that you don’t want to have pulled at the drop of a hat.

(There’s also the professional-image aspect of the situation to consider too. Who do you take more seriously: The blogger with a freebie-pitch on blogspot.com, or the blogger with their own self-hosted domain who’s actually put the effort in to learn how to do it all from scratch?)

Thinking way way ahead; yes there’s tiny a chance that the hosting company who host the self-hosted blogger’s domain could suddenly go out of business too: But in that case the site’s safe from all but at worst a few days’ downtime while the blogger transferrs their domain to a new host and rebuilds from their personal backups they’ve taken.

(Backup, backup, backup: Yes it applies to bloggers too with regard to the data on their server; although possibly not to so great an extent as it does to computer-users with regard to the data on their box(es).)

]]> By: Jasehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/comment-page-1/#comment-33269 Jase Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:27:43 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/yahoo-gives-final-notice-on-geocities-closure/#comment-33269 RIP Geocities.... what are the alternatives? RIP Geocities…. what are the alternatives?

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