It was 1995 and David Bohnett and John Rezner founded the Beverly Hills Internet hosting company, later renamed #GeoCities.
The original concept of the service was to create a virtual community of Web sites organized into "Internet cities."
During the registration process, new members would choose the neighborhood to which they wanted to belong.
This neighborhood became part of the member's Web address along with a sequential "street address" number assigned to make the URL unique
(e.g., geocities.com/RodeoDrive/number%22).
In 1999 GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! and ten years later, on October 26, 2009, Yahoo! permanently shut down the GeoCities service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities
I wonder what the founders' thoughts and reflections might be on City-state, network states, etc...
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