{"id":504,"date":"2009-04-25T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-04-25T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:32:20","slug":"how-much-is-geocities-worth-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/how-much-is-geocities-worth-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is Geocities worth today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of news reports about Geocities claim it was purchaed for &#8220;4 billion&#8221; dollars. But not really&#8211;that&#8217;s a pretty hefty rounding from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/1999\/01\/28\/technology\/yahoo_a\/\">3.57 B<\/a>. Also, that wasn&#8217;t cash, but magic boom time inflated stock. Yahoo was at $335.875 on announcement, so the deal amounted to about 10.6 million shares. Or at today&#8217;s values, a little over $150 million. Your call on whether they got their money&#8217;s worth. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of news reports about Geocities claim it was purchaed for &#8220;4 billion&#8221; dollars. But not really&#8211;that&#8217;s a pretty hefty rounding from 3.57 B. Also, that wasn&#8217;t cash, but magic boom time inflated stock. Yahoo was at $335.875 on announcement, so the deal amounted to about 10.6 million shares. Or at today&#8217;s values, a little&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,15],"tags":[721,718,719,720,1159],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercialism","category-yahoo","tag-acquisition","tag-geocities","tag-stock","tag-value","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-88","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}