A while back I was talking with a younger, fairly tech-savvy coworker, and he was asking all kinds of things about being online in the late '90s/early '00s. It was weird being like "Yes, I lived through GeoCities" and talking about it like I was handing down sacred lore. - ThreadSky

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poochkins.bsky.social • 53 days ago

A while back I was talking with a younger, fairly tech-savvy coworker, and he was asking all kinds of things about being online in the late '90s/early '00s. It was weird being like "Yes, I lived through GeoCities" and talking about it like I was handing down sacred lore.

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chiefoddball.bsky.social•53 days ago

As much as we used to rag on Geocities' storage limits, ads everywhere, and stupid URLs, is it crazy that I want a Neocities page now, to just post dumb stuff on?

Like, they've even got guestbooks and stuff. Guestbooks.

poochkins.bsky.social•53 days ago

I don’t think it’s dumb at all! The homogenization of the web into like five sites kind of sucks, and having little personal sites like that - even if we scoffed at some of the dumber ones at the time - is pretty neat and makes the web more fun.

chiefoddball.bsky.social•53 days ago

I totally agree. I complain all the time about how like 3 large companies basically control all the content anyone posts these days. Think I might get myself a Neocities page and dump nerd content on it like it’s 1996. Blue UAC carpet background, baby

poochkins.bsky.social•52 days ago

Along those lines, randomly the other day the line "Digitized sounds of guys falling off the roof and the Rutles saying 'Oh piggy!'" popped into my head

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