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joematters

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Posted on Sat Aug 15 15:49:13 -0700 2009
I'm sorry for this being off topic of healthcare reform, but I would like to point out the idea of recent dot.com technology updates and something major that is going on with Silicon Valley right now. Thousands of people are about to lose their websites because Yahoo! is closing down GeoCities. How many? I don't know, but I think there are going to be thousands and I, personally, think it's a foolish idea because it's a form of revenue for Yahoo! and millions of people were depending upon Geocities to support web service for their businesses. GeoCities is a beautiful program, millions are using it and it seems a waste to me that they are trashing the software. People learned how to build web pages through GeoCities. It seems stupid to me that they would just throw the Pagebuilder program away when there is no other like it. How many children learned to build web pages through GeoCities? How many people used it to support their businesses? Millions are about to lose it all. An example--joematters.net. Now, Joematters.com is obviously very important to me and I am going to gather info--from many different websites I had to build when it originally had limited capacity to combine them all into one which I will pay for and host. However, what about Joematters.net? Seriously, this is representative of millions of families that are about to be wounded by Yahoo's sudden changes. I'm not going to pay to host two websites, so that means I'm going to lose all the information unless I rework the entire website to conform to joematters.com--which now has greater capacity--which they did not used to have. MY point being...the labor costs are being flushed down toilets of everyone who is being forced to adapt to Yahoo's new limitations on web development because they are trashing what once was offered as hosting of millions of websites. I just wanted to mention it because it seems to me there are some legalities here that are being overlooked and it doesn't seem right that these labor costs of all these people are being trashed along with the GeoCities program. I already spent ten years building my website and now I have to restructure everything because Yahoo is shutting down it's hosting for GeoCities and only offering hosting through Yahoo. What about the others? Do they understand? Do they have the time to rebuild ten years of work?
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joematters Female Posted about 11 months ago
Here it is today, 10/20/2009, and I received an error message from Yahoo! when I tried to access my website, Joematters.net, that read: "Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable. The server is temporarily unable to service your request
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