{"id":80996,"date":"2020-10-03T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T09:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:40:27","slug":"what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/","title":{"rendered":"#What Was GeoCities, and How Can You View It Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4121da81333\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4121da81333\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/#What_Was_GeoCities\" >What Was GeoCities?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/#A_Social_Neighborhood_on_the_Web\" >A Social Neighborhood on the Web<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/#A_Small_Gallery_of_Archived_GeoCities_Web_Pages\" >A Small Gallery of Archived GeoCities Web Pages<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/#The_End_of_GeoCities\" >The End of GeoCities<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-geocities-and-how-can-you-view-it-today\/#How_to_View_GeoCities_Today\" >How to View GeoCities Today<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;#What Was GeoCities, and How Can You View It Today?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/geocities_hero_2.jpg.pagespeed.ce.0IZV_Oku6Z.jpg\" alt=\"GeoCities Logo\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you used the Internet in the \u201990s, you probably remember <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yahoo!_GeoCities\">GeoCities<\/a>. This popular web-hosting service was active in the U.S. from 1994-09 (and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-10-02-yahoo-japan-geocities-shutting-down.html\">until 2019 in Japan<\/a>). It hosted tens of millions of personal websites at its peak.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Was_GeoCities\"><\/span>What Was GeoCities?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, the World Wide Web (as it was called at the time) was a new frontier. Ordinary people could publish any kind of information\u2014no matter how niche\u2014for worldwide consumption.<\/p>\n<p>However, it took some fairly beefy computer servers to handle web server software at that time. And those servers required expensive, speedy network connections, so website hosting was costly at first. A customer would pay a monthly fee (like $10) to rent a few megabytes of space on a remote web server\u2014or they might get some web space with an ISP sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion.<\/p>\n<p>Web publishing was primitive back then. To publish a site, you\u2019d typically <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3053173\/what-it-was-like-to-build-a-website-in-1995\">edit an HTML file in a text editor<\/a>, and then upload it (along with some images) to the web server via an FTP client and a lot of patience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-692611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xthe_smiths.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.HoVDVZ_wEi.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a personal GeoCities website created by The Smiths.\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 1995, GeoCities proposed an alternative plan to paid hosting. It would provide a small amount of web space for free (about 2 megabytes at first), and then charge a monthly fee if you wanted more storage space.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1997, GeoCities began to offset its costs by requiring its customers to display advertisements on the pages they hosted. Along with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripod_(web_hosting)\">Tripod,<\/a> GeoCities became a huge step in the democratization of the Internet, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to easily publish info on the web.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Social_Neighborhood_on_the_Web\"><\/span>A Social Neighborhood on the Web<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Since GeoCities websites were created by people from every walk of life, each site had its own folksy feel that reflected the personality of the author. In that way, it presaged the later appeal of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> networking sites, like\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myspace\">Myspace<\/a> and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>While personalizing their sites, GeoCities members would bedeck their pages with banners promoting personal causes, ads for their favorite software (like the Netscape web browser), <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/724\/animated-christmas-gifs-of-yore\">holiday-themed animated GIFs<\/a>, images from their <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/Tokyo\/1996\/friends.html\">favorite TV shows<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692610 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xhosted_by_geocities.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.9zNsilTgHB.jpg\" alt=\"A &quot;This page is hosted by GeoCities&quot; banner from a website.\" width=\"650\" height=\"94\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From the start, websites on GeoCities were organized into <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/geocities-archive\/subneighborhoods.html\">virtual \u201cneighborhoods\u201d<\/a> that loosely reflected a theme, such as \u201cHollywood\u201d for entertainment, \u201cArea51\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction, and \u201cSiliconValley\u201d for computers.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood appeared in the URL of your site, which also included a unique numerical address, such as:<\/p>\n<pre>http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/siliconvalley\/7070<\/pre>\n<p>By the late 1990s, GeoCities\u2019 popularity exploded, and it became the third most visited site on the web. Over time, the number of neighborhoods on GeoCities expanded dramatically. By the early 2000s, GeoCities hosted web pages on just about every topic imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>You could find sites about <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/woodburyfire\/\">local firefighter brigades<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/capecanaveral\/3563\/\">military aircraft<\/a>, vacation photo galleries, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/eyepups\/sirius\/franklin.html\">elementary school class artwork<\/a>, genealogy, alien abductions, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/williamwchow\/galen\/goodpots.htm\">pottery<\/a>, and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Small_Gallery_of_Archived_GeoCities_Web_Pages\"><\/span>A Small Gallery of Archived GeoCities Web Pages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve selected a few vintage GeoCities websites to share, which have been archived for posterity by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oocities.org\">oocities.org<\/a>. The following images were captured in a modern web browser, though, so they might not look exactly how they did in their heyday.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you\u2019ll still get an idea of what classic layouts and graphics looked like on the web in the late \u201990s through the early \u201900s.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s head down memory lane:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/sjg\/\">Ray\u2019s Packard Bell Web Site<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Sometime in the mid-to-late \u201990s, a guy named Ray set up an unofficial support website for Packard Bell computers, a popular consumer PC brand at the time. It includes detailed information about various models of Packard Bell computers. By mid-2000, Ray rarely updated it, but he did splash a message about his newborn baby daughter across the top of the page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xrays_packard_bell_site.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.ILELbCTYRe.jpg\" alt=\"Ray's Packard Bell Web Site on GeoCities.\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/itsamemario2000\/english.html?202025\">The SMB Super Homepage<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0This Super Mario fansite was created by Mario Alberto. It received its last update around \u201901, but it\u2019s full of info about the various Mario <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s and cartoons. There\u2019s even a page devoted to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xsmb_superpage.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.uI19Wzdj9o.jpg\" alt=\"The SMB Super Homepage website on GeoCities.\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/tom_premo\/geek.html\">Tom Premo\u2019s Geezer-Computer Geek Webpage<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0The story behind this enthusiastic site is that Roy T. (Tom) Premo, Jr., was a mild-mannered computer fan until he met President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Then, he magically became a computer geek and created a gloriously \u201990s site full of spinning animated GIFs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xtom_premo_geek.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.Ma7EsVKI5T.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Premo's Geezer-Computer Geek Webpage on GeoCities.\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/thorcatfic\/?202025\"><em>Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman<\/em> Fan Fiction<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0S.L. Snyder\u2019s fansite for the \u201990s TV show features dozens of bodice-ripping tales of romance, as well as some slice-of-life stories featuring characters from the show. It received its last update in 2005, but given the number of stories, it must have been in the works for a long time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xdrquinn_fansite.jpg.pagespeed.gp+jp+jw+pj+ws+js+rj+rp+rw+ri+cp+md.ic.ShnPROJ-gd.jpg\" alt=\"A &quot;Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman&quot; fan fiction website on GeoCities.\" width=\"650\" height=\"415\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oocities.org\/yoramretter\/index.html\">Water Rockets Site<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0This unusual site by Yoram Retter features plans for building your own water rockets, photos of water rockets in action, and even some animated water rocket launches rendered in computer graphics. It\u2019s a good example of how a personal passion, no matter how obscure, could find a home on GeoCities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-692609 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Virtual-Launch-02-photo.gif.pagespeed.ce.z4jHd4cfvL.gif\" alt=\"An animated water rocket GIF from a GeoCities website.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_End_of_GeoCities\"><\/span>The End of GeoCities<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 1999, then-internet giant <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/yahoo-completes-geocities-acquisition\/\">Yahoo purchased GeoCities for $3.5 billion<\/a>. The GeoCities service then began to change its structure, although many of its legacy pages remained. GeoCities remained fairly popular with people new to the web into the early \u201900s.<\/p>\n<p>However, its popularity began to decline as web hosting became cheaper and was more often included with ISP plans or inexpensive <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MobileMe\">Mac.com accounts<\/a>. The rise of social media sites, like Myspace also contributed to its demise.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Yahoo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090427080521\/http:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/l\/\/us\/\/yahoo\/\/geocities\/\/geocities-05.html\">announced it would be shutting down GeoCities<\/a>, prompting an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\/archives\/1956\">outcry among digital preservationists<\/a>\u00a0about the massive loss of cultural history that would be. A volunteer Archive Team <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archiveteam.org\/index.php?title=GeoCities_Project\">started capturing as many GeoCities pages as possible<\/a> before Yahoo pulled the plug.<\/p>\n<p>They archived\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2513918\/geocities-lives----sort-of.html\">about 100,000 sites,<\/a> and you can view most of them today on mirror sites, like\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/#gsc.tab=0\">oocities.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_View_GeoCities_Today\"><\/span>How to View GeoCities Today<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite the sites that were lost when Yahoo shut down GeoCities, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/#gsc.tab=0\">oocities archive<\/a> is a priceless, historic time capsule of late \u201990s to early \u201900s internet culture, and we\u2019re lucky to have it. It\u2019s clear that GeoCities provided an essential outlet for personal expression\u2014and that\u2019s timeless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technology category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/692445\/remembering-geocities-the-1990s-precursor-to-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#What Was GeoCities, and How Can You View It Today?&#8221; If you used the Internet in the \u201990s, you probably remember GeoCities. 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