Hit 50,000 hits on my Geocities page from 1998 and it still works

I was bored last night and checked my old Geocities page about 18 wheelers and truck stop coffee. The counter said 50,003 visits which absolutely floored me since I haven't touched it since 2004. Someone in South America was the last visitor and I wonder what they were looking for. Has anyone else checked their old site's stats and found something weird?

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paul33015d ago

Isn't it funny how the old stuff sticks around way longer than all that new junk we chase after? I've seen it with cars too, people trade in a perfectly good 90s truck for something loaded with electronics that breaks down in three years. Your page survived Geocities dying, Yahoo killing the service, and who knows what else, and there's still some guy in Argentina clicking around looking at coffee and trucks. That counter tells you more about the internet than any algorithm ever will, it shows that people still want weird, specific, handmade stuff even if nobody's paying attention to it.

eric_price15d ago

Maybe it's not that deep, it's just a counter that probably glitched out at some point. Idk if it really means people are searching for handmade stuff or if bots just found it.