On 26/07/2024 05:53 Alan <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2024-07-25 19:41, Newyana2 wrote:

On 7/25/2024 9:19 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:

Many social media sites started as the former, and were taken over by
companies that turned them into the latter, or tried to, and if they
failed, they were dumped -- as Yahoo! took over Geocities, destroyed
everything that made it attractive to users, and then dumped it,
leaving a lot of dead links on the web, and a lot of useful
information rendered inaccessible.

 I think of Geocities as a good example of the early Web. I wasn't
aware of that history. I just remember that a lot of people set
up interesting and creative websites on there... then they were
gone.

Because the infrastructure that let them stay up had to be PAID FOR.

Infrastructure is pretty cheap these days. You can rent a Linux server for
$10 a month and host hundreds if not thousands of websites on it.

The problem is that companies are seeking unrealistic profits and valuations
of their stock.

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