End of An Era

I guess there always comes a time when good things come to an end. Yahoo announced that Geocities will be turning the switch off permanently on October 26th. It’s been a long ride for the free web host. Starting back in the mid-90s, pretty much at the advent of the internet as we know it. My first site we a Geocities site, and from reading the article, it makes me wonder why I haven’t kept that first site. Oh yeah, I remember now, because it was horrible – animated Simpsons characters, horizontal rules that were yellow and black construction type signs, an “LED” Welcome sign, all center aligned. At the time I loved it and spent a lot of time on it when I should’ve been in economics class, and was proud to have my little place on the web.

Anyway, thank you to Yahoo for keeping the “first apartment” alive and well these past several years. But we all need to move out and move on with our lives as you do as well. Goodbye and Farewell Geocities, it was great while it lasted.

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