Millions of GeoCities homepages were created, often by individuals, with most being nothing more than simple personal pages with variations of a “Hello World” message. Similar plug-and-play homepage hosts sprang up called Tripod and Angelfire, both allowing users to express themselves directly by producing rudimentary “profiles.” GeoCities and the like were “social media,” or at least, an early form of it. What they weren’t, precisely, was “social networking” because despite the fact that GeoCities grouped like interests together, the focus was not exactly on mapping social connections. Not
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