You know it is kind of interesting how things change through out time. One good example is how the internet has evolved. Where AOL once the social networking, until it later became Friendster or Myspace, and now it is Facebook.

At the birth of the internet (birth meaning when the internet began to grow among casual internet goers i.e. mid 90's) there were also sites that were basic by design, but allowed people to create their own websites. Most of them were merely just templates that allowed you to select your background and entered text, but it was a beginning for everyone. I for one have never used those kind of website templates.

Last Month, On October 26th, Yahoo! Geocities was shut down, only a year after AOL's Hometown shut down. And there are speculation that Tripod and Angelfire might shut down in the near future. These are the pinnacles of the personal "web 1.0" in my opinion. The layout that was originally designed is very basic, and many websites have been long abandoned, so it is much like a little piece of history. Unfortunately I don't believe The Web Archive is able to actually crawl and archive it. But as the web archive team is, they are attempting to save it, according to an article. While I spend hours among hours back when I was 13 or so, browsing these websites on Netscape on my Mother's Mac, looking for h/p/c/a/v information, or L.O.R.D. add-ons and whatnot.

I believe the only service I REALLY played around with WAS AOL Hometown, while I still never used the template, I just fired up my Frontpage 98 and tried to make a website geared to my 'TranceF8' Screen name... I don't think it was ever finished (or even started) past the frames layout and the nifty title.

I do hope they save it... Farewell Geocities...

Now then... with all the crap that Yahoo! is deleting... why are people still using their email? :p