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How it started
The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US – GeoCities Japan managed to hang on until 2019). GeoCities was a free web hosting service that launched in 1994 and once hosted millions of personal HTML websites, from pop culture shrines to teachers’ pages for their students (and truly everything in between).
When GeoCities …
This sounds like an exciting initiative! It’s great to see a focus on making the internet more unique and diverse. Looking forward to reading more about the stories you’ll cover!
Absolutely! Embracing the indie web could really foster creativity and diversity online. It’s interesting how this movement might also encourage smaller voices to be heard, which is so important in today’s digital landscape.