I remember how much work I put into my Geocities site. Many many months. I look at it on the wayback machine now, I can bang that entire site out in about 2 hours now.
Yes but for comparison you would need to code something in Go that's really complicated now. At the time being a Geocities user put you in an extremely rare cohort, which is of course why they originally sold for a billion bucks. Those of us who used it were extremely valuable users from a long term point of view. The first people on the internet who made their own websites AND linked all of the relevant stories everywhere else on the internet.
