Also, Intern Kaila! Yay!
“Geocities has existed for as long as I can remember the internet, providing free themed “neighborhood” space to users starting in 1995 and encouraging us to become technological “homesteaders.” It was a forerunner of blogs and social networking sites, bringing like-minded people together via link directories and webrings. At a very young age, and with a very slow modem, Geocities helped me make homepages and fan pages. It had me mucking around with HTML and its own creaky site-building tools. I was 13 years old, so it was the host of my anti-Dawson’s Creek screed, Dawson’s Creak, and later it made room for too many trashy stories—the kind where Mulder and Scully really, really like each other or Harry Potter’s broomstick needs tweaking. But it was the first way I learned to publish myself on the web.”
