For those of us who were on the net around the end of the last century, GeoCities populated a distinct corner of the Internet. It was rarely pretty. But it was the germ for many sites that eventually became something greater. SKnet for example, was at first a geocities site, then a 50megs.com site, and then it got a domain.
In 2009, those thousands of geocities sites, representing the first baby steps of the common user "home page," were deleted. A 650 GB backup was made of that era, and it's being distributed via bittorrent for anyone interested (not sure who would be, outside of Internet historians, decades from now). This project, The Deleted City, is a visual representation of that time.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/the-deleted-city-visualizes-geocities-as-it-was-today/
In 2009, those thousands of geocities sites, representing the first baby steps of the common user "home page," were deleted. A 650 GB backup was made of that era, and it's being distributed via bittorrent for anyone interested (not sure who would be, outside of Internet historians, decades from now). This project, The Deleted City, is a visual representation of that time.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/the-deleted-city-visualizes-geocities-as-it-was-today/