No it wasn't. Vast reams of content were hosted exclusively on GeoCities. In fact almost all "home pages" were on GeoCities or AOL back then. There has never really been a time in the history of the internet when a few small providers or companies didn't have outsized dominance - DARPA early on, then Netscape, AOL and GeoCities, then Microsoft, Blogger, WordPress.
This sort of discussion looks often like rose tinted spectacles. The past wasn't so different to today.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2SRyaq2
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