Audio of 99% Invisible Episode 420: The Lost Cities of Geo

Listen now to “The Lost Cities of Geo” from 99% Invisible. Geocities was online metropolises, with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests.

Listen now to “The Lost Cities of Geo” from 99% Invisible. Geocities was online metropolises, with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests.
The city metaphor helped make a group of users understand the web for the first time. It was the third most popular destination on the internet, but it fell out of fashion as the web became more commodified and professional. Before it shuttered, a few archivists scooped up as much data as possible before that early internet experimentation could be deleted.
99% Invisible explores the process and power of design and architecture.