Back during the transition years (the 1990s) but during the late transition years (definitely post-alternative era) of the internet's loss of its "innocence," there was a website called geocities.com®. This was not its only name. The Geocities Corporation also purchased a domain name called "geosucks.com." The latter was apparently used as a "mirror" to the former. This is ironic, since afair use of the facility as a mirror by end users was strictly prohibited by the terms and conditions. The most famous (and to some most hilarious) example of technology for enforcing the IronLawOfTanstaafl was something that came to be known as "geobranding." This was accomplished in Java® by somehow causing a partially transparent image of the letter g® to miraculously float over text in the FreeAsInBeer web pages that were and are (sometimes) geocities. This policy has (I think) been discontinued, or else the public computers at the local college library do not display script correctly.
At some point, the Geocities Corporation acquired a proprietary but occasionally informationally leveling technology called Webring®. There are rumors that the Webring® property was subsequently "spun off." Stuff like this is normally in the "public" "domain," and probably still is, but I'm too lazy to look it up, and besides the complexification of information, say, information about mergers and spinoffs, is too easy to realize and too hard to reverse engineer. LorraineLee nevertheless applauds the Consumerium movement for giving it the old college try anyway!
There are also rumors that Ringworld® and other ambiguous imitator/alternative sites also started cropping up during that turbulent and frighteningly opaque (by pre 9/11 standards, anyway) period called the nineties.
Eventually, the Geocities® empire came to be acquired by the Yahoo!® conglomerate, becoming YahooGeoCities®. I'm sure this maze of equity transfers was very labor intensive. I applaud the many workers who worked tirelessly to make YahooGeoCities® possible, because without it or its equivalent, you would not be reading this mensaje.
If this had been an actual emergency, you probably wouldn't even be alive to read this mensaje.