Came across this website name when i was reading about sites that was acquired by Yahoo.com
Ask HN: What Was Geocities.com?
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#2Really?
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#3Free website hosting popular in the nineties.
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#4Really?
Didn't get exact answer to my question. As my English is not good, the articles in English didn't help me with my question.
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#5Free website hosting popular in the nineties.
Just like wix? But why it was popular?
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#6I was on their pre-ipo team back then I was nearly fired for bringing a linux laptop to work in 1998 linux was as bad to bring to work as say a bag of weed they assumed I was trying to hack my own employer pretty funny considering how dominant linux is today but back then everyone swore by Sun Solaris.
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#7Free website hosting popular in the nineties.
Just like wix? But why it was popular?
A bit like wix a bit like dreamweaver/frontpage and a bit like myspace rolled into one, free hosting and an applet based WYSIWIG editor. Also a bunch of components like chat, guestbooks, webrings, etc. The also had a virtual community concept, with street addresses so you had neighbors and things like that. In retrospect that was a terrible idea, but maybe the analogy helped some less technical people.
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#8I was on their pre-ipo team back then I was nearly fired for bringing a linux laptop to work in 1998 linux was as bad to bring to work as say a bag of weed they assumed I was trying to hack my own employer pretty funny considering how dominant linux is today but back then everyone swore by Sun Solaris.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just like wix? But why it was popular?
A bit like wix a bit like dreamweaver/frontpage and a bit like myspace rolled into one, free hosting and an applet based WYSIWIG editor. Also a bunch of components like chat, guestbooks, webrings, etc. The also had a virtual community concept, with street addresses so you had neighbors and things like that. In retrospect that was a terrible idea, but maybe the analogy helped some less technical people.
So it provided some way to insert components like we see today or you can write html code as it is and the page gets created?