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The website that's linked here is a million times better than all the sites it claims to be inspired by.
In all honesty, most of geocities was crap, and every time you'd stumble on those sites with messy content and flashing "under construction" gifs, you'd just click away in no time.
For me that first experience was Yahoo acquiring and killing GeoCities, not to mention deleting 10’s of millions of websites from the early web in the process like it never existed paving the way for social media.
I’ve spent the better part of a decade waiting, and in 2020 Yahoo’s trademark for GeoCities was finally cancelled by the USPTO, I filed for it using geocities.eth, in part, and successfully became the new owner of the GeoCities registered trademark.
There is a new era of passionate website builders that are making the Internet fun again and they have inspired me. You can find some of them at the .eth website search engine https://esteroids.eth.limo
If things go as planned, it may just be a matter of time before you’ll have the opportunity to build a geocities website once again, only this time your website(s) won’t be able to be rugged.
It’s become the norm for big tech to acquire and kill off beloved products over the objections of passionate communities of users. For me that first experience was Yahoo acquiring and killing GeoCities, not to mention deleting 10’s of millions of websites from the early web in the process like it never existed paving the way for social media. I’ve spent the better part of a decade waiting, and in 2020 Yahoo’s tradema…
The nostalgia for geocities sites gets a bit old... The website that's linked here is a million times better than all the sites it claims to be inspired by. In all honesty, most of geocities was crap, and every time you'd stumble on those sites with messy content and flashing "under construction" gifs, you'd just click away in no time.
Especially since, at the time, web geeks who weren't starting out with HTML hated Geocities for being the source of everything wrong with web design. And then of course, half or more of Geocities' existence was as a largely forgotten hosting platform, after almost everyone who'd built a site there in its heyday had quickly abandoned it or otherwise moved on.
It’s become the norm for big tech to acquire and kill off beloved products over the objections of passionate communities of users. For me that first experience was Yahoo acquiring and killing GeoCities, not to mention deleting 10’s of millions of websites from the early web in the process like it never existed paving the way for social media. I’ve spent the better part of a decade waiting, and in 2020 Yahoo’s tradema…
https://neocities.org/ has been around for years, is the same exact concept and doesn't come with any crypto-related baggage.