GeoCities: 20 Years Later | Nostalgia Nerd
[Head to https://www.squarespace.com/nostalgianerd to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NOSTALGIANERD] GeoCities, the hosting service that sparked a wealth of early internet development, creation and creativity. In this episode I’m going to explore this early internet phenomenon. I’m going to look at the history of GeoCities and then delve into the archive of sites which remain available to view and navigate.
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@kenneth6731
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Banners, frames, MIDI files, the Java Lake applet, animated fire text, webrings, widgets, and of course, hit counters—all with Netscape!
@Winston-i9j
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Yeahh ChatGPT didn’t hit but fire video
@harmonyln7
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Why did Yahoo take geoCities down? It sounds so fun.
@sillysquid67
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
try going on Cameron’s world, it persevered some geocities websites and it looks super cool
@carlosdanger6969
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
2:34 omg Dilbert! I remember him! I wonder what that Scott Adams fella is up to these days?
Oh no… oh god no… wtf…
@JwalterPenn
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Also known as the sim city 2000 days.
@fraser_mr2009
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I understand why Yahoo shut it down in the US in 2009 because by 2009 barely anyone in the US and Europe was using it eveyone was creating and browsing channels on YouTube instead. Basically the arrival of YouTube killed it off.
@sadly_waz
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Start of video: New Websites look BAD
Middle of video: New Websites are the best FUCK THE OLD ONES!!!1!1!1!!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!1!
Near End of video: God, New Websites are bad
@DoctorProteus
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
A lot of really horny sites in Hollywood back in the day… so not too dissimilar from meatspace
@bigbabypuddingsnatcher
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
doody fart doody fart
@ItsKapow
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Did anyone have a "sign my guestbook"? Good times!
@kai.critterkiddoz
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
i actually stumbled upon both fox spore and jeff's doom and quake page before seeing this video lol
@AloanMoreira1
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
12:39 – I like this one – pleasing to the eyes -what´s the link to it?
@jackmercer4244
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I was offering my DJ mixtape mp3s for free in 1999 or so. Then I heard about Myspace, it sounded cheesy so I ignored it.
@jackmercer4244
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
GeeYawCitties 🤣🤣🤣
@xreggs2137
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
the "as loose as your mum" got me
@DP-hy4vh
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Geocities was the original social media.
Geocities –> Blogs –> Social Media
@Itsallfun3000
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Geocities was brilliant!!!
@wallakfir90
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
We can still get the old internet back. Delete your social media, learn HTML and start building a website! Take control of the internet back from those huge soulless corporations.
@thesteelrodent1796
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
5:32 think you missed that this is basically the Star Trek timeline
@cameronpearce5943
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
God the internet was so much better back then.
@prettycoolguy2850
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
A quick google search shows James and Zahra are still married and running a company together
@jenif3317
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Forget squarespace. If you want an actual modern geocities, try neocities.
@lingdatang669
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Bookmark 5:12
@Yotsukaido
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I look forward to the Utopia Mining Colony starting up on Mars next year🪐
@MorganSullivan
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I had a page in Geocities… Can't remember what was called or in which neighbourhood it was… I edited with Netscape.. Good times!!
@SavvyZone1234
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I'm playing a portuguese rom translation of Final Fantasy VI. The only info off the translating team is from a defunt geocities site
@TASTEGROUND
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
hahhahahhahahaha
@shakybeevessouls
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
The nostalgia this fills me with, there was a sense of mystique back in the dial up days. A nascent world, innocence before self awareness. The analogy I'll use is Adam & Eve, these sites represent humanity playing naked in the garden, imperfect, chaotic, expressive before the fall. And now we just need to look at today's internet, obsessed with self-image and everything refined to the point of sterilisation 😓.
@aceofspades9298
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I recall the pain of loading tools for editing pages while using dial-up internet, which was 10th of a mbps.
@CEEZYABABY
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I STAYED on anime geocitiy pages
@cyrex6519
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
what geocities sites you remember going to or still go to?
@bobbybabinjr.4388
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I'm here for the juggalo fan pages. Whoop whoop 25 years later
@TerraBrandis
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
When you say that we used to share resources a lot because search engines were poor, I feel that we advanced for a bit, but now are right back to most being pretty useless.
@janetheplain
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
Did you also get a YouTube warning for linking to the GeoCities Gallery? I – someone with under 20 subscribers, YouTube really should not care about – had the link in a video description last year and just now got a warning. According to Google at least, there was a recent case of malware on the website. I hope this turns out to be a false alarm. That site was really cool. Apparently, YouTube expects its users to consult a crystal ball before they link to anything. Take care.
@Scrap5000
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
I had a page!!
@wilhelmbittrich88
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
This video really took me back, this for me, is how I remember the internet from a young age. My aunt showed me GeoCities back when I was about 10 or 11, and really interested in EVERYTHING computers. I would have made a few of these GeoCities sites, and they would have looked just as bad, if not worse, than most of the ones here. I wonder if they're archived? Not that I'd know how to find them again, or what the pages would even be about.
@zanemeredith2794
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
@9:28 blurs name and DoB immediately scrolls past the static blur overlay haha
@krisandrew6996
October 2, 2026 at 8:58 am
15 Seconds in, and there is a LHOHQ reference aka church of bob? Did you notice that lol you should Defo do a video into that website. I did a way back search myself and found it interesting. Net cult and all that.