Geocities' Time Has Expired :(
This is truly a sad day for me. I don’t remember the exact cities I belonged to, but I’m pretty sure one of my sites was in ‘Silicon Valley’. I vividly remember a conversation I had with a friend in 6th or 7th grade in the library where we discussed our geocities communities and why we chose them (I’m pretty sure we were aiming for succinctness).
I still have the fat HTML books my dad bought me in 6th grade at my request, I used the knowledge to build The Legend of Zelda fan sites, complete with my own custom “banners” (created in PrintShop, of course), frames, metatags to help myself get indexed, cheesy gifs, guestbook, visitor counters, and overall bad ass design. Kids nowadays have it so easy with Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger, Facebook, etc… it’s just too easy to put yourself on the internet.
So, from the bottom of my heart, RIP Geocities. The late nineties were a happier time. It is now my mission to find the floppy disks containing the aforementioned HTML goodness and publish them for memory’s sake.
