But the success of GeoCities and the Globe indicates that many Web surfers are looking for something that they aren't getting from their access company.
's (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Geocities and Tripod, a personal Web service from Terra-Lycos (nasdaq: TRLY - news - people ).
Ten years later in 2009, as other metaphors of the internet (such as the social network) had taken over, and the homesteaders had left their properties vacant after migrating to Facebook, Geocities was shutdown and deleted.
FORBES: Resurrecting 'The Deleted City' Of The Internet's Early Pioneers
Founded by former GeoCities employees Rich Rygg and Scott Daniel, HipGeo launched its app in January.
At the time of the Yahoo acquisition, Geocities had focused on monetization and let scale grow on its own, making a few mistakes along the way in terms of figuring out monetization at scale.
However, GeoCities is a top ten web site and investors are rewarding heavily trafficked sites.
Bohnett, 47, spent 15 years in the consulting and software worlds before founding GeoCities in late 1994, when Internet usage was nascent.
Geocities was a four billion dollar acquisition and the same happened.
GeoCities enabled groups of people to form communities on the Web, and it caught on like wildfire.
Two of the best-known prospects are GeoCities, a fast-growing community of personal Web sites, and Multex Systems, which offers on-line research for investors.
What the Globe and other Web ventures, ranging from America Online to Santa Monica, California-based GeoCities, are doing is not so much creating community as providing tools for the creation of community.
When the Internet was young, before Blogger, WordPress, and Movable Type enabled the public to easily publish volumes of information to the world, sites like GeoCities provided a free home.
FORBES: Resurrecting 'The Deleted City' Of The Internet's Early Pioneers
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