Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse. Jason Scott on AOL’s closure of Hometown, their hosting service. In related news, Lycos just announced they are closing Tripod, which has been providing free hosting for 13 years.
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Like many user-generated content sites, AOL Hometown blocked the Wayback Machine. So someone’s going to have to trawl through Google Cache before it’s gone, I guess.
Wow I thought that Tripod went under a while back... Proof nobody cares. Hey did you know a billion other companies offer free hosting? Yeah everyone in India does it in their spare time.
Dave K - 18th January 2009 17:03 - #
Lycos denies it's shutting down Tripod:
http://www.buzz.lycos.com/index.blog?entry_id=1874 608
The service shutdowns are coming from Lycos Europe, which is owned by another company.
Charles - 19th January 2009 20:47 - #