Geocities has closed down. Frankly, this came as a bit of a surprise to me, as I didn’t know it was still around.
The whole service represented everything that was wrong with not only web authoring, but the whole idea that anyone could (or should) do it. It gave people a venue to publish whatever they wanted, no matter how inane, vapid, or just irrelevant. The result was that people who could barely write a sentence in their native language were now all “webmasters.”
Webmasters! Talk about empowerment.