Remember Geocities, the 90s-era webpage builder that you probably used to host your “About Me” page in 6th grade computer class? Yahoo shut down Geocities’ U.S. service back in 2009, but according to a link on the front page of Hacker News today, a simple Google search turns up remaining Geocities websites that are still in existence. Turns out, some of them are pretty damn weird.
Click through the slideshow to see some of our favorites.
A site featuring Robin Hood fan fiction and an animated GIF of a dragon named "Webby."
Also known as "Harley Heartbeat," this is the personal website for "Mark Madson, and my motto is that 'I'm 48 years old, with the body of a 24 year old, and the imagination of a 12 year old that has not realized the boundaries of reality!'"
The website for a guy who thinks Indiana's Hoosiers mascot comes from his family's last name and wants JUSTICE.
Information about gun shows in Peoira, Illinois, along with some photos of a random gun range.
The personal website for an amateur photographer and "electronic spacemusic" artist.
Now we're getting into territory that's just beyond obscure. Bolerama is a site "dedicated to the preservation of Boler Travel Trailers, the original Canadian ultra-light RV."
This site is everything you want it to be, including a landing page with ASCII art of an angel sitting on the moon.
A site to help you determine whether or not your stamps are forged, which is obviously a crucial resource in our modern world.
A page of resources for Reformed Druids, an organization formed in 1963 as protest to forced religious services attendance at a college in Minnesota.
As promised, this site features the lyrics to "God Bless America" overlayed atop a background image of--of course--the stars and stripes.
