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Google Sidewiki
“It gave every website a margin, and let us scribble in it.”
“No HTML, no CSS, all heart — your first website lives on in Google Sites now”
Google Page Creator launched in beta in 2006 as a website creation and hosting service that asked nothing of you but a Gmail login. No HTML or CSS knowledge required, 100MB of free hosting, and a Gmail-derived domain name — suddenly anyone could put a page on the internet. It offered templates and HTML editing rather than fancier tools like message boards or blogs, but for non-professionals, that simplicity was the w
In September 2008, Google stopped accepting new sign-ups and nudged users toward Google Sites. The service shut down in 2009, with existing published pages migrated over rather than left to rot. A gentle passing, as these things go — the pages lived on, even if the little tool that launched them did not.
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“It gave every website a margin, and let us scribble in it.”
“Processed with love, developed by post, remembered in permanent color.”
“Three thousand owners, one open Linux heart, and a promise that software can dream in hardware.”