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What Happened To: AIM — Case File 002

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What Happened To: AIM — Case File 002

AOL Instant Messenger invented the social internet for an entire generation. It ran for twenty years. When Verizon finally shut it down in December 2017, the announcement came in a blog post that nobody read. Filed by: The What Happened To Archivist | Status: Closed — December 15, 2017 | Tags: AIM, AOL,

What Happened To: GeoCities — Case File 001

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What Happened To: GeoCities — Case File 001

GeoCities gave millions of ordinary people their first home on the internet. In 2009, Yahoo deleted all of it — 38 million pages — on a Tuesday afternoon, without a plan, without a sale, without warning.

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A digital archaeology project documenting the rise, fall, and cultural decay of the 90s and early 2000s.

What Happened To [Archive]

A digital archaeology project documenting the rise, fall, and cultural decay of the 90s and early 2000s.

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