GeoCities offers free Email via Netscape Navigator Internet client software.BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1996--GeoCities (www.geocities.com), which provides free home pages in its 24 online themed communities, announced today it would offer free email accounts to all GeoCitizens via Netscape Navigator(TM) 3.0. Anyone who sets up a free personal home page in a GeoCities community is eligible. "Free email accounts are an important new community service for GeoCitizens, and this program reflects our continuing efforts to create a true spirit of community in GeoCities neighborhoods," David Bohnett, president, said. For GeoCities' nearly 120,000 homesteaders, the email accounts will become permanent addresses, Mr. Bohnett said, adding that "even if they switch access providers, they'll always have one email address to call home." "GeoCitizens now have the ability to send and receive live, HTML-based email," said Alex Edelstein, group product manager for Netscape Navigator. "Content from the Web can be inserted directly in GeoCities homesteaders' email boxes, allowing them to take advantage of leading-edge email functionality." After a quick configuration of their Netscape Navigator, GeoCitizens will be able to send and receive email from their GeoCities account using a wide variety of Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . By using Netscape to view mail, GeoCitizens will be able to see both formatted text and inline images. In addition to free email accounts, GeoCitizens receive a free megabyte of space for their home page, three levels of home page editor, live help chat every business day, visitor counters, guest books, mapping facilities, banks of images, and templates for submitting home pages to major search engines. Through affiliates of GeoCities' parent, CMG CMG Coastal & Marine Geology (USGS) CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (stock symbol) CMG Companion (of the Order Of) St Michael and St George CMG Computer Measurement Group Information Services See Information Systems. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) ), visitors to GeoCities can search favorite neighborhoods with a specially designed Lycos search engine, and chat with other GeoCitizens in a 3-D world created using BlackSun's VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. technology. Also, via an arrangement with Freeloader free·load intr.v. free·load·ed, free·load·ing, free·loads Slang To take advantage of the charity, generosity, or hospitality of others. , visitors can automatically download GeoCities files overnight using free software available on the site. GeoCities has its headquarters at 9401 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. . CONTACT: Dick Altman, 212-697-2620 dickaltm@panix.com David Bohnett, 310-273-0400 dbohnett@geocities.com or http://www.geocities.com |
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