GeoCity

English Etymology en w:GeoCities, from en geo city<alt:cities>. Noun en Internet historical A community of common interests on GeoCities. en Caroline Bassett; Chris Wilbert Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace David Crouch Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge w:Routledge 1999 2006 188 0-415-18108-9 The place-names (Cape Canaveral, Silicon Valley, Athens, etc.) demarcating GeoCity neighbourhoods, do not stand in relation to each other according to the order of a real geography, but as cultural markers for aligned interest groups. en Gordon Graham The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry London; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 1999 148 https://archive.org/details/internetphilosop0000grah/page/148/mode/1up 0-415-19748-1 But there are also recorded instances of people ‘marrying' within the ‘community’ of a GeoCity. en Gordon Graham Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace Eric Katz; Andrew Light; William Thompson Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues Amherst, N.Y. w:Prometheus Books 2003 part 8 (Computers, Information, and Virtual Reality) 493 https://archive.org/details/controllingtechn0000unse/page/493/mode/1up 1-57392-983-2 Imagine, now, someone whose sole experience of interacting with others lay, or at least had come to lie, in relationships formed within a GeoCity or virtual community. en James Crawford Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Old Street Publishing Ltd 2015 523 https://archive.org/details/fallenglorylives0000craw/page/523/mode/1up 978-1-908699-93-0 Anyone, from anywhere in the world, could bond in a GeoCity over anything from blue whales to Baked Alaska, from Mozart to muscle cars.