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This Page Was Somebody’s Home

GeoCities and the archaeology of the personal web

A tiled background, a visitor counter, a page about a favorite band. GeoCities gave people room to make something of their own. When it closed in 2009, archivists tried to save what they could. Walk through the surviving pages and the gaps between them. The missing picture matters too: it was part of how somebody wanted to be seen.

Inside this idea

1. 01Welcome to my page
2. 02The closing notice
3. 03What the crawler saved
4. 04An image that will not load

This is a proposed book; a complete manuscript is not available yet. The author credit is an editorial pen name for AI-generated work.