The End of an Era


21-9-09: I know that this page has lain dormant for a long time now, but I felt I had to rouse myself long enough to announce the end of an era. After years and megabytes of free webspace and bandwidth, many of which were horribly abused by first time web developers and their inexplicable infatuation with the blink tag, Geocities has officially decided to shut down shop. And by that, I mean that they're no longer offering free webhosting, so it's as if they're dead to me.

I can still remember when I first set up on Geocities all those years ago, back when they still thought of their piece of webspace as a 'neighborhood', and my site wasn't known as Legends of the Blade but instead under the distinct and memorable moniker of TimesSquare/Castle/3158 (don't forget the double S in TimesSquare!). In fact, I remember those days so well that I can't get that piece of now irrelevant trivia out of my head, which is a shame, because I could really use that headspace for other things.

Yes, it was a good time while it lasted. But all good things must eventually come to an end. Now I'll just have to load up a U-Haul full of poorly formatted pages, lame puns, and inspiring quotes, and move them over to a new address, where they will be preserved in perfection until Tripod gives up the ghost on its free hosting. See you there!

http://jaridis-blade.tripod.com