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What really happened to GeoCities, the website that was once the third most visited place on the entire internet? At its peak it hosted 38 million user-built pages and helped define what the early web actually felt like to ordinary people. Then Yahoo bought it for 3.57 billion dollars, made a series of decisions that quietly killed everything that made it work, and eventually just deleted it. This video breaks down the full story, from the founding vision in 1994 all the way to the day the servers went dark in 2009, and explains why the loss was bigger than most people realised at the time.
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