Update any AOL Hometown links

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Update any AOL Hometown links

Another web dinosaur becomes extinct

Rosalind

5:10 pm on Oct 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

AOL Hometown is closing its doors on the 31st. A few of you are probably still linking out to some of their millions of pages, and if you are it's definitely time to drop those links.

phranque

9:44 am on Nov 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

funny - i had just added some links to some AOLHT pages a week or so ago!

tictoc

9:03 am on Nov 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

LOL and I used to be so excited about my AOL hometown page

Receptional Andy

9:19 am on Nov 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

Bizarrely, they've permanently redirected every URL to [peopleconnectionblog.com...]

Bye bye several million pages and up to a million links. I'm thinking they could've planned this slightly better...

Rosalind

2:44 pm on Nov 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm thinking they could've planned this slightly better...

I think they planned this exactly as they meant to, which is to say with as little fuss as possible. People I know who use AOL didn't get any emails about it. Why would they make a big fuss about withdrawing one of their features, even if relatively few people were still using it?

There were actually 26 million pages indexed by Yahoo before they were pulled.