Guillotine

Just wanted to give people a quick reminder that Yahoo! will be shutting down Geocities permanently on October 26, 2009.

So, if you have embarrassing pics, or webpages you forgot you put up there 10 years ago now is the time to save that stuff before it’s gone. Yahoo! has sent out a “final notice” about this and no files will be archived, so if it’s on the Geocities server after the 26th then you can consider it deleted… Or maybe on some Yahoo employee’s hard drive at home.

I just removed the last site I had up there from like 6 years ago. It was kind of sad actually… As I was right clicking and saving my data I came across files that were remnants of older sites I had up there over the years. I actually built my first site there back in around… 1994 or thereabouts using the same account I just finished erasing. Those days were fun with nobody worrying about search engine ranking, and the internet was still small enough that people on the web could actually get to know each other rather than adding their profile to Twitter and forgetting they exist 5 seconds later. God I’m getting old.