Last week, Yahoo shut down the legacy that was Geocities. Just after the explosion of the World Wide Web started in the mid 90’s, Geocities was a melting pot of hackers, foreigners, teenagers, and fools, all staking out their territory on the Internet with spinning mailboxes and dancing skeletons (not to mention the scrolling text).

One of the best sites on Geocities was WebTekRocks. Luckily, the brilliant minds behind WebTekRocks have pulled together and given it its own domain name and a permanent place to live: WebTekRocks.com

That web site is a true representation of everything that was possibly wrong with GeoCities, which makes it so right.

Enjoy.

Feels like they should have Winger playing in the background or sumpin.

That is a freaky retro internet thing..fun..

Damn! I lost my lease in Heartland Hills that I’ve had since at least 1994!

They should rename it Atro Cities.

I ran across a Geocities site for a local nonprofit a few months ago, and I was stunned that it was still around. I’m vaguely sad to see it go, I guess, but I can’t say I’ll miss it.