[slash end] Geocities

A loooooong time ago I used to have a personal website called "...ellipses..." I created it (initially) as a platform to get myself hired as a front end web developer back in the mid-to-late nineties. Once I got hired it had served its main purpose, but rather than delete the site, it evolved into what was the pre-cursor to blogging -- an online web journal, or an "OLJ" as they were called back in the day. I kept an almost a daily record of 'a day in the life of my platform Mary Janes' until 2001. Once I met my husband, I stopped wanting to post there and basically closed the site down with a vague promise of developing a new web space.

I never did.

Today, after logging into my Yahoo! account for the first time in months, I discovered that Yahoo! has finally decided to turn off Geocities (unless I want to pay for web hosting). Truth be told almost all of my old OLJ pages were lost ages ago, and can only be found through the internet archive, but I'm feeling a touch sad about the whole thing. Something about closing the book on an old, old chapter of my life.

"What, pray tell, does this have to do with the OTBP blog?"

Well, all of the pictures for the Off The Beaten Path blog were stored on Geocities, and since I don't feel inclined to go relocate them all and update all of the image links, take once last look before they go away on October 26th. Most of 'em are pretty grainy, so...no great loss.

Also...if I do ever manage to (a) spearhead a hike in the Bay Area again and (b) post about it, I will put the images in a more permanent place...just so you know. In the interim, if you ever want to see me, just email asking me about my latest show. I'm usually rehearsing for something.

Cheers,
Hiker Jane (aka. ms. e.)