What made Geocities suck?
There were several things about the Geocities service that made it horrible. First, you couldn’t connect it to anything. Each account was an island unto itself in the way that Yahoo controlled it. Prior to Yahoo’s acquisition there were “neighborhoods” of web pages, and could be considered a very early version of social networking – but Yahoo stopped using that. That was a mistake. It was such a mistake that it make the title of the service meaningless. The “cities” part was originally to indicate groups of users in said neighborhoods of the system. Yahoo completely killed that off, taking away all community aspect of the site. Second, even though it was less restrictive compared to its competition, Geocities still had too many rules, and this bothered users to no end. Third, it was static. You had to manually link pages and know how to do it. This proved to be very irritating in short order; it took a long time to update your own pages. The thrill of having your own web page lost its
