Remember Geocities? Spammers do
         

<p>Back in the early days of the web &mdash; which is to say perhaps ten or twelve years ago &mdash; there was a popular website called Geocities. It was something like an early version of Myspace. In many ways, Geocities did a lot to popularize the idea of 'having a web page' for ordinary people. Anyone could sign up and start throwing content online. In its day, Geocities was a big deal, but it failed to evolve and duly dropped out of most people's awareness, overtaken by social sites like Myspace and Facebook, or blogging sites like Blogger and LiveJournal.</p>
         

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