Regular subscribers to this blog will have notice that the usual graphic brilliance which accompanies this has been thwarted by the rise of commercialism and downright nastitude; namely GeoCities.
I received the following message the last time I signed into GeoCities:
After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year.
OK, this sounds innocent enough, but when you consider that literally everything I had up on the website was missing or deleted there seemed to be a discrepancy between "later this year" and immediately. So with a little investigative fortitude, I decided to inquire as to specifically why such a dastardly deed had been done. The reply I got was thus:
Dear Andrew,
As you are aware GeoCities had decided to remove the facilities of free webspace as of 23rd April, 2009. Your information was decided of not sufficient importance to warrant informing you of its removal. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Hmm, not sufficient importance? Admittedly I can cop that, but it still isn't exactly the nicest thing in the world now is it? It's a bit like kicking out your tenants before you've given them an eviction notice, except that I never actually paid for my website in the first place.
This is systemic throughout the web I note. AOL AOL discontinued newsgroup access through its service in Feb 2005 and Comcast discontinued newsgroup access in Sep 2008. It makes me think of that quote from Dave Fischer in Jan 1994:
"It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended."
My first exposure to the web was probably around then, so I guess that I was kind of living in Eternal September. Does this now mean that Eternal September has come to a close? Are we now in October 1993?
Who knows? Who Cares? Not GeoCities anyway.
http://www.geocities.com/rollo75 - 1997 - 2009. 12 years old Uninforming the World.
PS: I'm now left with dead links and blank picture frames all over the place. Thanks goes to GeoCities for that.
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