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GeoCities is shutting down and for that I got 2 years free DreamHost hosting account and a domain name!

When I started with web designing/developing way back year 2000, I signed up for a GeoCities account to practice the new craft I am trying out. Now, I may say that I am a full-fledged web developer; already got some web developing jobs, yet still learning to keep me updated with the trends in creating a website and applications.

Well,  as the title reads – GeoCities is shutting down, and it will be later this year according to their website advisory. I already learned this news over Plurk few weeks ago. Some of my Plurk friends keeps sharing about the news and what more I was so excited to know about is if it is true that they got 2 years free DreamHost account with unlimited space and bandwidth and a year domain name. Yes! That is true, all that for free. It would cost you around $220 (more or less) to have that in a regular purchase.

Well, without further hesitation, I visited the blog post about that from DreamHost and also the entry of  Jehzlau. It was true then. So, I visited my GeoCities account and saw the homepage saying…

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