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  2. List of Yahoo!-owned sites and services - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! GeoCities was a popular web hosting service founded in 1995 and was one of the first services to offer web pages to the public. In 1998, it was the third-most-browsed website. [33] [34] Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 and shut it down in 2009, deleting 7 million web pages.

  3. GeoCities - Wikipedia

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    GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009. GeoCities was started in November 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, and was named Beverly Hills Internet briefly before being ...

  4. Organization for Transformative Works - Wikipedia

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    These projects include The Fan Culture Preservation Project, a joint venture between the OTW and the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa [22] to archive and preserve fanzines and other non-digital forms of fan culture, and The GeoCities Rescue Project, which attempted to preserve content originally hosted on Yahoo's ...

  5. David Bohnett - Wikipedia

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    David Bohnett. David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956) is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation, a non-profit, grant-making organization devoted to improving society through social activism. Bohnett founded the pioneering social networking site GeoCities in 1994; the ...

  6. Olia Lialina - Wikipedia

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    Education. Moscow State University. Known for. Internet art, Net art, Theory. Notable work. My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. Movement. net.art. Olia Lialina ( Russian: Оля Лялина, May 4, 1971, in Moscow) is an Internet artist and theorist, an experimental film and video critic and curator .

  7. Special Collection Service - Wikipedia

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    The Special Collection Service ( SCS ), codenamed F6, [ 1] is a highly classified joint U.S. Central Intelligence Agency – National Security Agency program charged with inserting eavesdropping equipment in difficult-to-reach places, such as foreign embassies, communications centers, and foreign government installations.

  8. Hampster Dance - Wikipedia

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    The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.

  9. List of Web archiving initiatives - Wikipedia

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    Thematic web collections of Canadiana research interest have been curated as an ongoing program activity since 2009. Web Information Collection and Preservation - WICP (Chinese Web Archive) [30].GOV.CN Y Harvest of the web pages about the events that have great influence on the society, economy and so on, and the sites in 'gov.cn' domain.