...that amazes me

Anglefire: Surviving on the dregs of the web since 1995

Wow! Angelfire is still around?! Thought it died.

I had the coolest damn Star Trek: Armada modding site up on Geocities for a while. I hand-built a LCARS style interface using all HTML (no Flash back then) with sound and everything. It was impossible for pretty much anyone to navigate on dial-up, but I didn't care, it was Geocities!

So...Geocities was a precursor to blogs? IF so, what the hell? .65 terabytes?! That would take approximately 4.5 months on this connection.

More like the precursor to the Wordpress tools (and other ease of use website building tools) then actual "blogs."

Those that weren't around to see 15 hamsters dancing to that dodododo song with a strobing background and 50 point comic sans fonts just *don't* know what they were missing XD

Not really a precursor to blogs, they were a free website host. Anyone who wanted a website for practically any purpose could create one on Geocities. Unfortunately, most people created them badly. Very badly. Like viewing the site for more than 10 seconds could induce seizures badly.

Originally the sites were grouped by "neighborhoods", with each neighborhood representing a different category, like "Area 51" was for the science fiction sites, "Napa Valley" was for the food and wine sites, "Tokyo" was for anime, etc. Other than the ocular offending designs of the individual sites, it was actually pretty cool... for a little while at least.

Ah! Okay, thanks.

Ah, that makes sense.