Silver Year

It’s been months since Yahoo announced the closure of Geocities. At first, I wasn’t much affected nor shocked with the news. But when Geocities totally closed last October 26, 2009, I then appreciated this old friend of ours.

I first successfully launched a personal site through Geocities’ free hosting. It gave people a venue to express themselves. Who will forget URLs such as www.geocities.com/(Yahoo User ID)? Those were the days when we are so amazed of marquees, animated images, etc.

I still remember back when I was in college when I used to save my webpages in a floppy disk and then go to an internet shop to upload or update my site.

Blogs started to become widely used because of it’s easy customization and updating, though there are web applications right now who are offering instant websites. But I think blogs are much widely used nowadays.

Still, I feel grateful for being part of the Geocities generation. It served as the first medium in the web  for me to express who I am.