"GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing." And the Canadians could have

"GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing." And the Canadians could have won the space race. I mean, in some possible alternative reality both could have happened, but the number of changes there would need to be is staggering. Geocities, as it existed in this reality, was always doomed to failure and ridicule.