Back in mid 1995, a small free web hosting page was introduced to the virgin internet. It was called Geocities and it offered us budding computer users 2MB of space to do whatever we please for the world to see, it would be the beginning of something huge for many and I was one of those lucky few to be a part of it.
So in early 1997, I started “Hot Rod’s Homepage” my first website. It was a shrine dedicated to (at the time), all and any aspect of Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime. Every story told, every toy, every merchendise, every image/fan art, heck even every kitbash I could find by fellow fans. Geocities gave me freedom to show my love for Transformers and this character. As time progressed into the early 2000s, they gave us an upgrade to 15mb of space to go wild. At the time, I had a digital camera and webcam and thus showed my budding collection and who was the man behind the Proto shades. Those were good times….
Alas, these times have come to an end but fear not, I will try my best in the future to put up my original webpage, unedited on my .com one day as a tribute to those innocent days.
Also www.archive.org and www.internetArchaeology.org have a good deal of past Geocities pages backed up, so if you still have the original URL of some of your favorites….. give it a shot.
Enjoy the video by the way.
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