Whether or not you had a Geocities account, it's hard to deny the part it played in moulding we way we all use the internet today.
The closing of Yahoo!’s GeoCities service marks the end of a chapter in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Services such as GeoCities offered the world a web as Tim Burners-Lee had designed it – all of a sudden anybody could stake their claim to their very own corner of the World Wide Web, without the need for in-depth technical know-how, and all for the cost of a dial up plan. In a world predating Twitter, where the word blog was largely unknown and to own a dot-com was to merely buy into a corporate fad – Geocities gave a voice to those who were previously muted responders, foreve…(more...)
Tags: Amateur, Andrew Keen, GeoCities, Online, Tim Burners-Lee, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web Design, Web Evolution, Yahoo!
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