farewell "geocities.com"
In the days before blogging, social networking and media hosting sites maintaining a personal webpage required technical knowledge that the average netizen did not have. I had to apply basic web admin skills to maintain our organization's website. Then geocities came as a free and convenient alternative for personal webpages. Geocities' Webpage builder was a great drag and drop alternative to paid apps like (then Macromedia's) Dreamweaver and MS Frontpage.Now that Yahoo closed geocities I had to move my art archive to Multiply. Hopefully it stays there without need for future migration until my grandchildren are old enough to see it. But I can only dream about that as I observe what the internet offers now and what it has in store.
If somebody would only combine the best of facebook, flickr, multiply and blogger/wordpress, then I'll be happy managing a single account. Facebook provides great interface for real-time social networking. Yahoo's Flickr hosts the greatest photo-sharing and commenting features. Multiply hosts more space for still images, plus it allows cross-posting of blogs. Blogger allows html editing of blog layouts. Wordpress allows uploads of document files. You log in to Blogger with your Gmail account. You log-in to Flickr with your Yahoo account. You log in to Facebook with any email account... and so on... I haven't even mentioned Friendster where I still have a lot of active young contacts. Ahhhh.
Anyway, I just hope the invisible hand of the internet does not kill multiply the way it did geocities so my images would continue floating in one of those servers out there.
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