A week from today, Yahoo! is closing down Geocities. I didn't find out first-hand, as my Geocities page was created with a college email address and despite contacting Yahoo years back, I never could get access to it again. I happened to read about the news on Mashable. 
I created my page in college in the 1990s as a way to share some of my writing and family photos, while just having fun screwing around creating a website. What it really was though was a proto-MySpace page without the actual social network. Still, a lot of my friends had pages and we&39;d link to each other. Only now do I appreciate what was starting to happen. Ahh, hindsight.
While I do get all nostalgic with this, I&39;m also largely happy the page is going away. It should be a memory at this point – it&39;s not exactly the face of me I want out there, and it does still pop up in the occasional search results. It&39;s time for it to go.
I am downloading the page. I&39;ve included the snapshot of it, PDFed and hosted on Scribd. And for a few days you can visit my first website, a URL I&39;ll always remember fondly: www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8377
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Show comments Hide commentsA classic post! Nice recognition of how far we have come.