Let’s surf GeoCities

GeoCities launched in 1994. For one of the first times, web users had a free place to host their websites. And by the late 90s, GeoCities had become one of the most visited websites on the web. GeoCities was set up as a virtual city, dividing websites into neighborhoods by theme. Before shutting down in 2009, the Internet Archive attempted to scrape all of GeoCities. Websites like like Restorativeland now host GeoCities for us to explore, largely untouched since the 90s. I’m taking a look at original and often weird GeoCities websites to see just how creative the web used to be. 00:00 Intro 00:40 Homer World 03:26 Kalle's Corner 04:20 Nad's Cool People 05:56 Ally's Petz World 07:00 Redford Township Unicycle Club 08:33 Jack's Everything Page 09:01 Game downloads 09:23 TI-83 calculator games 10:04 GIF animations 10:21 Useless facts 10:46 Web freebies from the '90s 11:29 Browser buttons 12:00 Final thoughts #geocities #90s #retrocomputing