"The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US - GeoCities Japan managed to hang on until 2019). GeoCities was a free web hosting service that launched in 1994 and once hosted millions of personal HTML websites, from pop culture shrines to teachers' pages for their students (and truly everything in between)."
"When GeoCities went dark, those websites disappeared with it, most of them lost for good. Some sites have been preserved through the GeoCities Gallery, but they're frozen in time like relics in a museum. They're still sorted into categories for the old GeoCities "neighborhoods" they once belonged to, like Area51 for sci-fi websites or SiliconValley for tech websites. These pages are now littered with broken links and missing images, but still offer an unfiltered look back at the colorful, chaotic web designs of the '90s."
"Most of the internet users old enough to remember GeoCities moved on to social media and never looked back. Not everyone, though. In 2013, developer and tech entrepreneur Kyle Drake, who also worked on the GeoCities Gallery, launched Neocities, a rebirth of GeoCities as a free web hosting service where anyone can create an HTML website, either by uploading their own or using the browser-based HTML editor on Neocities."
The indie web emerged after GeoCities shut down and revived a culture of personal HTML sites and free web hosting. GeoCities launched in 1994 and hosted millions of personal pages ranging from pop culture shrines to educational resources. The GeoCities shutdown erased most sites, though some remain preserved in the GeoCities Gallery as frozen artifacts with broken links and missing images. In 2013 Kyle Drake launched Neocities to recreate free hosting and browser-based HTML editing. Neocities and related communities promote imperfect, unfinished personal websites, prioritize people-driven communities over algorithmic feeds, and emphasize creativity and user control.
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