Your analogy is terrible. The people coming to the restaurant don't make the food at the restaurant. If they did, that WOULD be a terrible restaurant.
Your second argument in favor of Geocities is that future brilliant web designers may use it? Ok they might, but if Geocities didn't exist they'd use something else. And I'd argue they'd learn faster and better habits by learning with some other tool.
The patrons of a restaurant contribute their appearance. A fancy restaurant is going to want to exclude people that aren't fancy, because that would be contributing "garbage" to the atmosphere.
If you were a librarian, would you only make the top 100 novels available? Why circulate books that aren't the best?
Re:Making the web fun again
by icebraining on Friday June 28, 2013 @12:38PM
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If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people.
What do you think high prices do?
That's exactly my point. Neocities/Geocities is/was free, allowing anyone with an internet connection to create something. Setting up your own domain and webspace costs money.
Re:Making the web fun again
by macspoofing on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:30AM
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But it was a vast wasteland of garbage.
Re:Making the web fun again
by chris_mahan on Friday June 28, 2013 @02:54PM
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Since Worse is Better, Garbage is Awesome?
If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people.
How many future web designers cut their teeth making terrible Geocities websites? Just because something is terrible doesn't mean you didn't learn something.
The forest would be pretty quiet if only the best birds sang.