GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
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#3I loved GeoCities and always was sad when social media left you so few options for customizing "your page" type pages.
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#4I found an old link to my GeoCities page in an old bookmarks.html, but it wasn't included in the archive.
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#5The internet died when GeoCities died
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#6I still remember all those "guides" about how to design your page, so that the annoying forced ad gets not served / shown.
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#7I loved GeoCities and always was sad when social media left you so few options for customizing "your page" type pages.
it's probably a knee jerk reaction to the horrendousness[0] that MySpace allowed users to do to their pages which was just a follow of some of the bonkers designs from GeoCities.
[0] so bad a new word is used for it
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#8I still remember all those "guides" about how to design your page, so that the annoying forced ad gets not served / shown.
window.top.location = window.location
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#9You can browse through archived GeoCities websites on The Geocities Gallery [0]
I get a warm feeling looking through all these "home pages", they feel so much more genuine and personal than anything found on modern social media.
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#10One thing nobody remembers (or at least never writes about in these retrospectives) from the early days of Geocities is you literally had to virtually "walk" up and down "blocks" in the the "neighborhoods" to find a "vacant lot" to put your site in. When I initially tried to sign up, they had some beta of a "vacant lot finder" cgi form that didn't work. It wasn't like these days where you just sign up and get an account - there was scarcity and a bit of a hunt.
I ended up going to some other service (it may have been Tripod?) to host my page before we switched ISPs to one that gave you 2 MB of space.
As far as I can tell the "blocks" were never archived so they're missing from the internet archive. You can see the indexes of them here https://web.archive.org/web/19961221013557/http://www.geocit...