AOL Hometown Shutdown

nuccia · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: AOL Hometown Shutdown

This is a bit late in coming but AOL Hometown shut down permanently on Oct 31, 2008 so many websites and blogs are gone. I know of a few genealogy sites that have lost everything.

You can read about it here:

www.joemanna.com/blog/...be-closed/

Cathy · V.I.P. Joined: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 2681

MSN is also shutting down their "communities" in February.

nuccia · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: AOL Hometown Shutdown

If You need to download lost files, these pages explains how that can be done. Good luck to anyone who had files there.

www.taimantis.com/get-...files.html

www.archive.org/index.php

nuccia · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: Re: AOL Hometown Shutdown

I received word about MSN but they are replacing it with www.multiply.com/

I signed up for it but haven't gone through it yet to see how it works. At least MSN gave people several months notice about the change.

Eleven · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: AOL Hometown Shutdown

Its just like aol to pull the rug out from people. They havent had a good reputation since I began using the computer in 1992. They tried to herd people in like cattle, and gave you a hell of a time, if you called to unsubscribe...offering you free months, bothering you with solicitation calls, etc. They would take control of your acct..weeding out your emails, etc. Bad. I used them twice, very early on..for a month each time. I have AIM..only because my daughter and many friends have aol and I could keep contact with them.

So the msn chat client is going out? Is that what you mean? I never even bothered with that one.

nuccia · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: AOL Hometown Shutdown

No..MSN had a "groups" site. Something like google pages or yahoo's free geocities pages. They decided to move their groups section or to Multiply.com which I think gives you more storage. MSN groups only had a small amount of storage space.

Eleven · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: AOL Hometown Shutdown

Ohhh..I think I used a group there once...a long time ago