Yahoo just announced they are closing down geocities. I was shocked, appalled, and generally disgusted. I had a website with geocities all the way back from mid 1997. I didn't do much post 2001 with it but I kept it alive with enough changes in file content to stave off the "no updates in three years; update or be deleted".

I log into the old geocities account (thankfully a yahoo password I remember) and begin the hunt for the ftp log in. Wait! What? No ftp login because it's free?! What's this 4.5mb cap an hour? Damnit how the hell am I going to get my files off in a timely manner? No matter - I took an adobe plug in, reconfigured a few things, and proceeded to let it data rape the whole 20mbs in about three minutes. THe most annoying part was the inserted javascript from yahoo I had to remove off ten or twenty html pages. Arg.

Rummy reminded me of the old geocities address: athens/acropolis/4921

Damn it still works.

I will have to raise a toast to the old page. She did me well for a long time. Not to mention twelve years of existence taking up a meager portion of the internet.

RIP 4921, RIP.