Andrew Ferguson

The Day The Music Died

Yahoo! is shutting down GeoCities today. A little known fact is that I used to have a web presence on GeoCities. In fact, it’s still there! I’ve checked back a couple times a year to see if it was still up and running it, and it always was.

Starbase 156^[1] was the place I used to call home before I started hosting my website on my own server. Today, though, will be our last day to actually view it in it’s native habitat^[2].

While you’re at it, you might want to check out XKCD’s front page, an awesome homage to my middle school and high school coding days^[3]:

1. Last updated 05/30/01 12:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time [↩]
2. I made an archival copy a couple of years ago [↩]
3. Well, not mine exclusively…but you get the idea [↩]

Tags: GeoCities, Starbase 156, xkcd, Yahoo!