• Las Angeles Times, Monday, October 26, 2009 2:13 PM

The Los Angeles Times says a very long goodbye to Yahoo's GeoCities service, which, during its heyday, was apparently "a central meeting place for a massive chunk of American Web surfers."

GeoCities allowed anyone to build a custom Web page for free and reserved a small amount of virtual storage to keep pictures and documents. It was, according to the paper, "perhaps the first mainstream example of an open, participatory and personal Internet." Dying with it will be tons of memories: family sites created by fathers; Pokemon pages created by kids; Backstreet Boys fan pages created by teenage girls. "Practically every facet of culture," as the paper explains.

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