Amazing: you've used a thread about one of the freest, least commercial eras of the web to plug some cryptocurrency/web3 bullshit and admit you took over one of the most memorable trademarks of that era to do it.
Free? You must have missed the part of the era where big tech purchased geocities for >$3B and killed it over the objections of users & deleted it from the Internet save for efforts of some like the Internet Archive (I hope you donate to them).
Also must have missed the part about giving the IP to a community to govern.
You did manage to confirm the unusual disdain of all things decentralized in web3.
The ephemerality was a feature we didn't understand was a feature back then. Not everyone dreams of a perfect distributed record of everything the way crypto people do.
If you think self expression through building websites was ephemeral for dominant social media sandboxes, that is great, but not everyone feels that way. Sort of as evidenced by this post on the front page of HN more than a decade after GeoCities was killed off by big tech.
