(This interview is from 2022) “GeoCities was not about self-promotion,” Bohnett told Gizmodo in an interview. “It was about sharing your interest and your know

(This interview is from 2022) “GeoCities was not about self-promotion,” Bohnett told Gizmodo in an interview. “It was about sharing your interest and your knowledge.” It was about sharing, but also it was a little bit about promoting ourselves. It felt good to share what we knew, and build something people found useful. Also, there was a self-promotion part of that. Way before there was "Likes" there was "Hits" and if the hits went up, we felt better than more people were reading. One thing it was NOT about, was money. We didn't have Ads and we weren't hoping for more traffic to get more clicks to get more money.