The indie web is here to make the internet weird again

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How it started

The indie web began a fewer years aft the extremity of GeoCities, which Yahoo unopen down successful 2009 (at least, successful the US - GeoCities Japan managed to bent connected until 2019). GeoCities was a escaped web hosting work that launched successful 1994 and erstwhile hosted millions of idiosyncratic HTML websites, from popular civilization shrines to teachers' pages for their students (and genuinely everything successful between).

When GeoCities …

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