Geocities está fechando

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O Yahoo, que comprou o Geocities há um tempo atrás, decidiu encerrar de vez as atividades do serviço. Se você não chegou a conhecer, durante os anos 90, o Geocities oferecia sites gratuitos e era muito popular.

O serviço será finalmente encerrado dia 26 de outubro e junto com a notificação o Yahoo está indicando o próprio serviço de hospedagem de sites por 4.99 dólares ao ano. Em seguida, veja uma cópia do e-mail enviado:

Final notice: GeoCities is closing.

Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer,

We're writing to remind you that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on

October 26, 2009

.

On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.

 

What You Need to Do

If you'd like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you've posted online, you need to act now by choosing one of the following options:

 

•

Move your site to Yahoo! Web Hosting. We know your files are important to you, and we want to make moving to Web Hosting as easy and affordable as we can. For a limited time, you can move your files automatically, take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site — all for only $4.99 a month for a full year . For more information and complete terms, please see our special offer now.

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Download your files to your own computer. With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider. To quickly download your published files, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As... from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save . Learn more about downloading your files.

 

Don't Wait

Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and

will not be recoverable

. If you'd like to save your files, you must download them now or move to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If you need assistance, please visit the

help center

.

We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! services.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! GeoCities team