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		throwawaycities on Aug 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Love Letter to Geocities Sites Free? You must have missed the part of the era where big tech purchased geocities for >$3B and killed it over the objections of users & deleted it from the Internet save for efforts of some like the Internet Archive (I hope you donate to them). Also must have missed the part about giving the IP to a community to govern. You did manage to confirm the unusual disdain of all things decentralized in web3.

alldayeveryday on Aug 2, 2022 [–]

> of the era where big tech purchased geocities for >$3B and killed it

Pretty obvious that commenter was referring to before that happened.

dist1ll on Aug 2, 2022 | [–]

Everything is free until it isn't.

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