Geocities: farewell old friend

Today is the last day Geocities will exist.

I got my start on Geocities. Back in 1998 I created a website for a poetry class that formatted my poetry for the class. We were offered extra credit if we did something ‘tech’ related that semester. I thought it would be cool if, at the end of the year, I walked up and gave the prof a small piece of paper with my URL on it instead of a disc, or paper collection of poems.

But after the class, I put up some info about who I was after looking at other homepages.

And then the whole idea of homepages seemed dumb to me, so I started keeping an online journal.

Things just kept kind of going from there, you know?

Here’s to Geocities, where I first learned HTML (my comp sci pro failed me in 1997, with the words ‘you won’t ever quite this, will you?’) for a reason, first started blogging, and first started meeting other writers.

TobiasBuckell.com would have come along, and so would my career, a lot later, without you.

I’ll raise a finger of my best scotch in memory tonight.

Filed under the topic Journal on October 26th 2009 at 5:59 pm. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.