Nice site.
I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
I was there, it wasn't that great, most of it was about Monty Python or how much people hated Barney the Dinosaur. The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
The modern internet is a far more consumer oriented experience than it was in the "old days", so I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Edit: That last "What are you talking about?" part was pretty rude. Sorry about that.
Every time I was amazed how different it was back then. Dense, but cleanly presented information, including links to other high quality websites. Contributions presented as elaborate documents themselves instead of a few lines in a comment box.
Nostalgia is strong, but seeing the difference in front of me regularly, it’s obvious the modern web is missing what this had.
Geocities even constrained by the technology of the day offered far more expressiveness than Facebook’s “fill in these fields and we’ll populate a standard template” approach does.
Geocities, compared to modern platforms, offered more technical freedom in that it gave you direct control over HTML, CSS and Javascript, and yet still many Geocities sites wound up looking very similar to one another, and the quality of content in many cases was more shallow than now.
On the contrary the Facebook of 2020 is far more a monoculture than the internet of 2000 or 1990.
Besides, Facebook is anything but a monoculture - nothing with a billion users could be considered a monoculture, especially not a platform where people maintain their real identity and culture rather than adopting a "platform" culture like on Reddit or 4chan.
Also, obviously, Facebook isn't the internet.
I'm sure there are people on Instagram who are passionate about what they do - their passion just doesn't interest you personally, and that's fine. The internet doesn't have to serve the interests and tastes of just one kind of person.