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> > GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, 
> > [died](http://www.pcworld.com/article/163765/so_long_geocities_we_forgot_you_still_existed.html)
> > Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years
> > old.
> 
> Back in the days I had a GeoCities account too, but that was mostly neglected because of my [Tripod](http://www.tripod.lycos.com/) sites. One of them is still working too, too bad I didn't have one of those visitor counters that were so popular in that era.
> 
> Shortly after graduating from HTML and Javascript, I moved on to this language that's used to make applets. I don't really remember why, but probably because books about Java are right next to books about Javascript. That's when I heard of this company called "Sun Microsystems", and thought that they were one of the coolest companies on Earth.
> 
> Fast forward couple years, when I was at Cal it's full of Sun machines. Those Ultrasparcs were slow, the userland was strange and difficult to get used to. Over time the department that I worked for started to switch away from Sparcs and Solaris, and their coolness factor faded.
> 
> Nevertheless, I was quite sad to hear that [Sun was brought by Oracle](http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Oracle-Will-Permanently-Eclipse-Sun-422107/). I can't quite find an obituary that's like the one for GeoCities, but I did find [this picture taken by Kevin Krejci](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinkrejci/3465205716/):
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> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3501/3465205716_6c3a1e1d3b.jpg" alt="Sun Set at Oracle" /> Sun Set at Oracle
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> In other news, Hong Kong soccer announcer [林尚義](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Sheung_Yee) passed away yesterday.
> 
> May everyone R.I.P.!