g-g-g-geo
geocities got shut down. i tried to find the two websites i had on there but for the life of me couldn’t remember anything about them. no idea what the urls, subject matter, or title were, and really, i probably wouldn’t have recognized them even if i saw them. it’s funny, all the various liquidspin.coms i remember at least sorta clearly, but zero for the geocities/angelfire stuff. i don’t think i was quite self aware of my own web-actions at that point
so yahoo bought that site for 3 over billion dollars. at the time that was the content center of the internet. this was the future, this was user generated content, a beginning of a new world where we all build our own amusement, learn, and share.
so went wrong? at that point it didn’t dawn on anyone that none of us want to create content. not really. that’s work, requires effort to maintain, and skill in setting up in the first place. we don’t really want to create content, we just want to post pics of our cats, say what we had for dinner, and link people to funny videos. we’re a consumer society, not a creator society. don’t bet against that.
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this is a pretty funny video, i just had dinner that was potato with some random fixings, and here’s a pic of my cat hanging out under a stool where he can still comfortably keep an eye on his food bowl:
Loki under stool