GeoCity

English

Etymology

Back-formation from GeoCities, from geo- +‎ cities.

Noun

GeoCity (plural GeoCities)

1. (Internet, historical) A community of common interests on GeoCities.
   • 1999, Caroline Bassett, Chris Wilbert, “Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace”, in David Crouch, editor, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN, page 188:

     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.

   • 1999, Gordon Graham, The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 148:

     But there are also recorded instances of people ‘marrying' within the ‘community’ of a GeoCity.

   • 2003, Gordon Graham, “Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace”, in Eric Katz, Andrew Light, William Thompson, editors, Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, part 8 (Computers, Information, and Virtual Reality), page 493:

     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.

   • 2015, 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, →ISBN, page 523:

     Anyone, from anywhere in the world, could bond in a GeoCity over anything from blue whales to Baked Alaska, from Mozart to muscle cars.