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How it started

The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US – GeoCities Japan managed to hang on until 2019). GeoCities was a free web hosting service that launched in 1994 and once hosted millions of personal HTML websites, from pop culture shrines to teachers’ pages for their students (and truly everything in between).

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