That 2009 WordPress blog about forgotten Geocities shrines made me miss the old web

Last week I was digging through the Wayback Machine for a dead forum thread about early flash games. Stumbled on a tiny blog from 2009 where someone cataloged their favorite Geocities pages before they vanished. They wrote about pet pages, weird fan shrines, and one guy who made a whole site about his toaster. It hit me different because I used to think losing those links was no big deal. Now I realize we lost a whole era of people just making stuff for fun without clout chasing. Has anyone else found an old blog that made them rethink how much the internet changed?

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spencerw7213d ago

That toaster site you mentioned, I actually found that one back in 2016 when I was cleaning out an old hard drive... it was called ToasterMan6000 or something close to that. The guy had posted daily photos of his toaster for like two years straight, plus a whole page about the best bread types for it. But you're wrong about one thing though, that blog wasn't from 2009 exactly. The Wayback Machine shows it was first saved in March of 2008, the author just updated it through 2009. Small difference I know, but it matters because he was literally one of the last people still posting to Geocities before they shut the whole thing down in October of that year. Makes you wonder how many other hidden gems we lost that never even got saved to the archive...