Week 5

Week 5: 1994–2010

Personal Creation on the Web from GeoCities to WordPress

Readings for Class

CJ Reynolds and Blake Hallinan, “The Haunting of GeoCities and the Politics of Access Control on the Early Web,” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444820951609. (Open Access).

Additional Materials

Articles

• Meghan Neal, “NeoCities Is Recreating the Garish, Web 1.0 Creativity of Geocities,” Vice, July 1, 2013.
• Gita Jackson, “The Geocities Archive Is Bringing the Early Internet to Life,” Vice, January 27, 2020.

Podcasts

Videos