How many of you remember Geocities? It was an amazing space; I think of it as the Wild West of the Internet. Web pages contained not only text and images but animated gifs, blinking logos, horizontal rules to separate sections, colored text (the more colors the better), and counters that meant little since they counted every time even the developer visited the page. And who can forget that "under construction" clipart! It's good to know that just as we try to preserve a little of the real Wild West (the Alamo and Tombstone come to mind), Web 2.0 archivists are committed to preserving what they describe as those "hideous webpages" one at a time. Read more about this noble endeavor undertaken by Jason Scott and his archive team at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/geocities_preservation/.
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I made a Geocities page once. I think my goal was to make it as terrible and random as possible, which Geocities made easy. I'm pretty sure I had an animated bat that followed the mouse on one of the pages. I actually lost that page long before Geocities' fall from glory. It might very well have been deleted, but I can still dream of one day finding it in the massive Geocities archive.
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