Tag Archives: GeoCities

E-Flashback

Yesterday I received an e-mail newsletter from WebRing. The major story: guestbooks and counters are now available.

Yes, guestbooks and counters. For WebRing.

The 1990s really are back!

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GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. # Over at Speed Force, I wrote a piece on GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages.
Interesting typo seen on a mailing list: “com and line option.” (command line) #

Posted in Computers/Internet, You Must be Mistaken | Tagged GeoCities, Tweets, typos | Leave a comment

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Kelson

Up way too late browsing 1001freefonts.com (It’s exactly what it says on the tin. Give or take.) #
Best headlines: learn from the BBC. #
Ambitious, crazy, or both? Backing up Geocities: Lessons so far. #
Sad, but true: XKCD tackles the social component of swine flu. #

Posted in Computers/Internet | Tagged flu, fonts, GeoCities, linkblogging, linkrot, Tweets, Twitter | Leave a comment

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Kelson

My Twitter personality: ordinary sociable cautious. My style: chatty academic ROBOT [note: apparently the "robot" is because of the percentage of tweets with links]#
Farewell, Geocities. It was nice knowing you. (Wait, no it wasn’t!) #
Jar-Jar Binks speaks LOLCat – or rather LOLcats speak Gungan (Katie on rewatching Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace) #

Posted in Computers/Internet, Star Wars | Tagged GeoCities, linkblogging, lolcat, Phantom Menace, Tweets, yahoo | 2 Comments