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18th January 2009 - Link Blog

Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse. Jason Scott on AOL’s closure of Hometown, their hosting service. In related news, Lycos just announced they are closing Tripod, which has been providing free hosting for 13 years.

Posted 18th January 2009 at 8:48 am

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