How did you start online? Geocities?

rob March 08, 2009 humor View Comments

If you have ever had a web presence, what did you first use to go online? Many today use Facebook (which I think is an excellent place to start). Others start with a blog on Blogspot or WordPress. I think my first site was actually a regular HTML site I built using Adobe GoLive and hosted at work.

Do you remember Geocities? I forgot they were still around until I was reading Seven Wonders of The World (Wide Web) from MakeUseOf.com and they took me on a short stroll down memory lane. Maybe some of you old-schoolers will relate to this:

Remember when Geocities was the Facebook or MySpace of the day? Then remember people starting to diss it as we learned to code HTML for ourselves? Then remember when MySpace and Facebook came along and we were all like, “Hey, this is kind of like Geocities. I miss those days.” and then we signed up for MySpace and Facebook and forgot about Geocities again?

Dude, it’s still there. Good old GC gave many of us our first website, our first look at a WYSIWYG web design, our first abuse of the tag and animated GIF’s. We still love you Geocities. Sorry, have to go change my Facebook status.

Ah, the old WWW of the Web Wild West. How did you first get a web presence? What’s that you say? You never have? Well then let us help you get started! Unless, of course, you can come up with a good reason to NOT be online. If so, let us know!

:-)

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  • http://kevindonahue.me Kevin Donahue

    I had a Xoom.com site and a Geocities site, before self-hosting with Greymatter. Ah… the good old days.

  • http://hertzlers.com Jerry

    Used MS Publisher 98 to create my first site; messy, code bloated HTML. Hosted on work webhost.

  • http://socialenchilada.com Jeremy Hilton

    My first site was an Angelfire site.

    It’s still live!

    http://www.angelfire.com/fl/mayhem/

  • lennylwarmington

    i made my first webpage on goecities in i think 1995 0r 96. i joined oprah winfrees book club and tried to sell books. i dont think i ever sold a single one. my goal was to get the money to stop flowing into the computer and to get it to start going the other way. i was on rodeo drive in hollywood do you remember they had maps and you could go down the street to visit what your neighbors were doing? i soon pointed my interest in giving away free midis wow free music on the internet so what if it sounded like computer noises. neat stuff then mp3 came along i had been experimenting with shrinking wav files so that i could put them on my webpage.
    teying to attract people so they could buy stuff from the advertisements i put on the page i officially became a member of linkshare and was going to be rich. never happened.
    geocities only gave about 3megs webspace which was huge if you did not try and put any media on the page. i could shrink a wav file of a tune from 50 megs to about 5megs by reducing the quality “they were unlistenable”mp3s were rare and i had to go get software to rip wav files from cds and seperate software to encode them into mp3s. to make my own. it was a long process. anyway i still have that webpage and it has kept evolving and now after all these years i still have not been able to reverse the flow of money but i have learned much and had a lot of fun thank you geocities
    lenny

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