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date: "2025-03-04T10:50:57Z"
categories:
  - linkedin
description: "Google’s Comic Sans Geocities easter egg is a tiny nostalgia trap that briefly makes the web feel old again."
keywords: [Geocities, Google easter egg, Comic Sans, nostalgia, web culture, search]
---

For a second, I thought I'd been hacked.

If you search for "Geocities" on Google, it shows the results in a Comic Sans font.

https://www.google.com/search?q=geocities

Turns out it's an easter egg by Google that's about 8 months old.

Are there any Geocities homesteaders here? Or is LinkedIn too new for the old-timers?

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-03-04-google-geocities-search-linkedin.jpg)

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7302641698101174272)