A sample of nine Geocities webpages which were among the one million archived before Yahoo closed down the old web communities.
Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages – 38 million at last count, according to Yahoo. They helped make the web a more vibrant territory, no longer the citadel of nerds in the know.
And this footnote very much sums up the Geocities experience: “This trip down memory lane includes a pop-up dialog box and some self-starting sound files. That’s the way it was.”
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