Hi, welcome to my page! The history of this page to some extent reflects the history of the whole internet...
I created the page at the very end of 1997 or at the beginning of 1998, on www.xoom.com internet community. Probably about one year later, the url changed into www.snap.com. Not much longer afterwards, it changed again into www.nbc.com. Apparently NBC bought Snap and Xoom. Similar changes happened to my email account on Xoom.
Among my old files I discovered a curious email dated February 16th, 2000. I will quote a piece of it, because I just lve how it sounds. Actually it talks more about an email account which I had on Xoom.
Dear XOOM Member,
You've probably heard by now that XOOM.com and Snap.com have become NBCi. Both XOOM and Snap have been proud to offer top-rate services, and now we're going one step further.
Beginning soon, you will be able to sign in to Snap without re-registering. We're about to make all of our services available to all of our users. You can look forward to the addition of clubs, communities, calendar, stock portfolio tracking, horoscopes, sports scoreboards and many other great services -- all for free.
In order to grant everyone access to both sites, we are assigning you a slightly different member name. Starting February 23, your member name will have .1 added to the end of it.
<snip snip snip (some advertising and promotional stuff)>
We're excited about being able to offer all of these great services to our members. We thank you for using XOOM, and invite you to watch for everything yet to come.
NBC Internet Inc.
Well, after a while the pages disappeared from nbc portal altogether. The email account was more lucky, it was transferred to mail.com
So, I finally decided to revive the page (luckily, I had a back-up on my hard drive). I got rid of most personal stuff (such as "what is my favorite food"). Hopefully you'll find at least something interesting here... I have some more plans for the page. Fell free to drop a line, just to say hello or share. I'll try to answer:)
As you might have guessed from the beakers and flasks I am a chemist, and I live and work on a beautiful island of Madeira, Portugal doing some scientific work You can have a look at the list of my publications.
Have a nice day, and happy surfing!
Visvaldas