A look back at GeoCities, launched in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, which allowed people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build web pages
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy … Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online , @ricmac@mastodon.social , and @jake4480@c.im . Forums: Hacker News Mastodon: Stefan Bohacek / @stefan@stefanbohacek.online : “The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page. … Richard MacManus / @ricmac@mastodon.social : A look back at GeoCities in 1995 (30 years ago!), including a couple of rare screenshots of the GeoCities website from 1995 — when it was still known as Beverly Hills Internet. https://cybercultural.com/... #InternetHistory #GeoCities (special thanks to @GIFmodel for the knowledge and @andrewjbtw for the 1995 BHI images) @jake4480@c.im : Today I ran across @ricmac and his new, truly expansive piece on the history of (the admittedly centralized) GeoCities and its origins. — I had a GeoCities site myself in the 90s (that is sadly lost to time now), and I didn't know all this wild history Richard dug up for this. … Forums: Hacker News : GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet