I recall receiving links now and then to GeoCities websites. It seems that a large genealogy collection was GeoCities based. No more. Websites closed, data lost. Ian Douglas writes about the unattractive appearance of the sites, but also their importance in the developing web:
A few hours spent with a book on HTML or wrangling the tools in Yahoo Builder or DreamWeaver would reward you with your very own site, complete with blinking text, a background made from tiled animated gifs that didn’t quite meet up at the edges, some exposed tags and special characters ( especially) and a scrolling ticker. It looked awful, but it was a small corner of the web of your very own and for that, they were precious.
The man, who was playing the 11th hole of the island’s Ocean Creek Golf Course, leaned down to pick up his ball when a 10-foot gator grabbed his arm and then dragged him into a nearby pond. The gator then went into a series of “death rolls,” a technique it uses to tear apart its food. That was when the man lost his arm.
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