Saving The Internet's Baby Pictures

GeoCities was the Facebook of its time... A place for pioneers making personal sites in an age when the Internet was the new frontier to be settled.

Now it's toast! On April 23rd, Yahoo announced that it would close GeoCities down. The 3 billion dollar acquisition from a decade ago is a casualty of new CEO Carol Bartz’s war against useless assets at the troubled company.

Jason Scott runs textfiles.com, a site devoted to computer history. He's lead organizer for a new group called the Archive Team, which is working to rescue a growing body of endangered Internet content, including the million plus pages that remain on GeoCities.

Audio: APM's Future Tense, Host: Jon Gordon.