In a world where everyday roughly 175 million people get online to check their Facebook, it makes you think; what would happen if Facebook disappeared?
This is what happened to Geocities, the original social site created in 1995 which allowed users to create their own website, free of charge.
On October 26, 2009, Yahoo closed Geocities for good.
Geocities pages are now gone, if it wasn’t for the few people who archived the site, the community of Geocities would have been lost forever.
The site may not have been making much revenue and its users may have dropped considerably but should it have been closed, for no one to see again?
The site is a part of Internet history, in years to come we will have no collections of what the Internet was in the early years, if we don’t preserve it.
In the reading by Phoebe Connolly, it states that Geocities may not be an example of the best the web could be, but it is an example of what the web was.
“There is a very real chance of this digital culture just disappearing from our lives.”
I had never really thought about preserving the Internet, I thought that everything on the World Wide Web stayed there, I was wrong.
Generations to come have to know what the Internet was like in the past, in order to fully appreciate the technology of the present.
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