Tonight, Yahoo! will shut down Geocities, the free webhosting service that was a mainstay in many of our early internet adventures. It's sad-particularly for Yahoo!, since they paid $3.9 billion in stock for it ten years ago-but the good news is that there's still time to save your old fanfiction from dotcom obscurity. READ MORE

Sad news on the Internets: GeoCities, a pioneering web-hosting service that you should probably ask an older relative about, is shutting down later this year. Even worse, Yahoo!, which bought the service in 1999 [for $3.5 billion], isn't being very polite to the existing users who will still find themselves "Internet homeless." In fact, if you read their Q&A page for victims of website foreclosure, you can almost sense a little bitterness and attitude on their part. READ MORE