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It's time to admit that the Web was never intended for long-term storage, with staunch personal sites the rarity, and fads, and news (up to 4 weeks old) is the trend. It's just a total failure, archive-wise.

Note: Why don't they just sell Geocities to someone who'll keep it going?

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If you sell Geocities, then you can't convert them to paying customers of Yahoo web hosting. You can't convert them to Yahoo anything at that point.

If you publicly mothball GC though, then you can maybe get a fraction (5-10% at most I'd guess) to become paying users at SOME level.

Even at that meager conversion rate, I see that being a better call then selling the remnants of GC off.

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