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* April 23: [[Yahoo!]] announced that it would be closing its United States branch of [[GeoCities]], and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active.
* Late June: Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page to indicate: "GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009." GeoCities joined a long list of other services discontinued by Yahoo such as: Farechase, Launchcast, My Web, Audio Search, Pets, Live, Kickstart, Briefcase and Yahoo! for Teachers.<ref>[http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Yahoo+abandoning+GeoCities/1530841/story.html Yahoo! abandoning GeoCities]</ref>
* October 26: GeoCities was closed, Yahoo! remaining true to their word.
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This page contains notable events about the internet in the year 2009.

  • April 23: Yahoo! announced that it would be closing its United States branch of GeoCities, and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active.
  • Late June: Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page to indicate: "GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009." GeoCities joined a long list of other services discontinued by Yahoo such as: Farechase, Launchcast, My Web, Audio Search, Pets, Live, Kickstart, Briefcase and Yahoo! for Teachers.[1]
  • October 26: GeoCities was closed, Yahoo! remaining true to their word.

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