I wanted to find some information about web content management systems. I asked ChatGPT this:
'Can you make a list of all the active and discontinues Web Content
Management Systems?'
The response was very helpful. It provided the info I was looking for. I was pleased with the results.
Here’s a broad industry-style list of both active and discontinued Web
Content Management Systems (WCMS/CMS) — including open-source,
enterprise, SaaS, headless, and legacy platforms. I grouped them by
status and type so it’s easier to scan.
A few of the largest and still-dominant CMS platforms today include
WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and
Contentful.
Then I wanted to know:
'where does Geocities fall among the CMS platforms?'
Again the response was good and useful. Pretty much answered the thing what I wanted to know.
GeoCities is usually considered a precursor to modern CMS platforms,
rather than a true CMS itself.
It sat somewhere between:
a website hosting service, a visual page builder, and an early form of
“consumer web publishing”
But in the end it was this gem of a final response from ChatGPT that really gave me a good chuckle:
"GeoCities is usually considered a precursor to modern CMS platforms, rather than a true CMS itself.
GeoCities is kind of the punk garage band ancestor of today’s polished CMS ecosystem — chaotic, personal, creative, and very human."
