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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet


GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.

A rare 1995 screenshot of the Beverly Hills Internet website; from The David Bohnett papers, Computer History Museum ( via Andrew Berger on Mastodon). Printout from the original Beverly Hills Internet business plan in 1995; from The David Bohnett papers, Computer History Museum ( via Andrew Berger on Mastodon). In July 1995, Beverly Hills Internet (BHI) announced another four “virtual communities based on real-world locations” — SiliconValley (for technology), CapitolHill (for politics), Paris (for the arts) and Tokyo (for anime and “all things Asian,” according to Blade’s Place).

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