Does anybody remember Geocities? A brilliant service which offered free webpages to anybody who wanted one. It was totally ruined when Yahoo took over.
It was where I learned to code in HTML and where I hosted my first website (Pamela's Palace), and later hosted the first ever Mermaids website.
It was quite tricky at the time because HTML and web creation programmes were all geared towards Internet Explorer and I wanted it to be avialble cross-browser so led to some creativity in coding. A tiny bit of Javascript was later added to protect email from spambots.
Yahoo took over and then began the exodus. New Ts&Cs meant they wanted to own all content including photographs. They later withdrew that but added intrusive advertising which mean the top of the page was obscured no matter how much you included line breaks to try and move the header down to below the advertising.
A great resource destroyed by the big web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities
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