Over a decade ago I made my first website. A horribly designed personal site written in notepad. I remember the title being A Dreamer’s Workshop, I was a freshman in high-school so I hadn’t quite grasped the idea of horrid cliches yet. In addition my sense of aesthetics wasn’t well developed either so my GeoCities page was a horrific blend of large tables and dark backgrounds and possibly animated gifs. The iconic flying toaster was a part of it I believe. It’s the kind of page that if I see today I immediately throw up a little in my mouth.

It was a strange time in web development, because everything was new and nothing really looked bad because nothing really looked good yet. We hadn’t had the medium long enough for anyone to truly develop as a proper designer yet. So even with the flying toasters it was a decent page for the time. Nonetheless I will forever associate the beginnings of personal pages with GeoCities, so I’m a little saddened that today it closes it’s doors.

RIP GeoCities