Comments on: What happened to Geocities https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-geocities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happened-to-geocities David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jon https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-geocities/#comment-57156 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:49:58 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36707#comment-57156 In reply to Matt C..

It was the Wild West. A digital frontier where everything was new, all creators were naive amateurs, chaos and experimentation reigned, and there were no pre-conceived notions of what websites should look like or contain.

]]> By: Matt C. https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-geocities/#comment-56751 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:31:25 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36707#comment-56751 I feel that Zoomers, even if we explain it, will never understand how fun and ridiculous the Web was in the mid-1990s. Animated GIFs. Tables. Crazy backgrounds. It was a fever dream.

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