99% Invisible

420- The Lost Cities of Geo

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42:38 | Nov 3rd, 2020

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Geocities was an online collection of metropolises, each with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests. The city metaphor helped make a whole new group of users understand the world wide ...Show More



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rmmiller364 recommended:Apr 18th, 2022

Oh this brought me back to my youth, creating absurd Geocities websites with my middle school bestie. And yes, I did have a fan page dedicated to Dana Scully and pretty sure it was indeed housed in the Area 51 neighborhood.

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🥺 Nostalgic
😏 Validating
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olivier recommended:Nov 5th, 2020

Such a lovely heat-warming episode about the early days of the Internet. It really took me on a nostalgia trip back to the mid-nineties when Internet was a new reality. This is easily in my top 5 for 99pi.

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🌅 A beautiful story
😊 Delightful
💬 A great conversation
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