On 26/07/2024 05:53 Alan 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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