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Byron, on his epic journey through every single fantasy novel ever written, is rereading the Dragonbooks (i.e. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey), and while we were discussing them last night, inevitably the conversation turned to just how big of a nerd I was in middle school.
I was recalling the days of yore when I played in PbEM RPGs and MUSHs and if you don't know what those acronyms mean... well, then you were a much cooler 12-year-old than I was. I had a whole slew of zines (e-mailed magazines created with AOL) with several hundred subscribers each. And, wow, there are few things I have experienced that are more cutthroat than the zine-world was.
But I think the highlight of my computer dorkiness was my geocities site, that I started in 7th grade, and continued updating (albeit very sporadically) through college. Last night, while remembering all my online endeavors, I mentioned to Byron how sad I was that geocities shut down last year, and that I hadn't had the time to find a place to upload all my files. Well, whenever I'm feeling sentimental, I tend to start wikipedia'ing, so I looked-up geocities, and down at the bottom, found a link to another site, www.geocities.ws, that is working to archive all the old geocities sites.
Bingo! Maybe this is where I can upload my files.
So I mosied on over to geocities.ws and tried to make an account, but imagine my surprise when my old geocities screenname (Crimson110!) came back as unavailable. (Because, seriously, who else is going to try and make their username Crimson110?) Well, after a lot of digging around, and answering a bunch of security questions (What city were you born in? What is your oldest cousin's name? What street did you grow up on?), I managed to gain access to the Crimson110 account... and it was mine.
All my files were there. Everything was just like I left it on geocities. Someone had archived me! (and I didn't even know it!!)
I don't know who or why or how they did it, but I'm so happy! I feel like my old website somehow found its place in internet history. :)
I was recalling the days of yore when I played in PbEM RPGs and MUSHs and if you don't know what those acronyms mean... well, then you were a much cooler 12-year-old than I was. I had a whole slew of zines (e-mailed magazines created with AOL) with several hundred subscribers each. And, wow, there are few things I have experienced that are more cutthroat than the zine-world was.
But I think the highlight of my computer dorkiness was my geocities site, that I started in 7th grade, and continued updating (albeit very sporadically) through college. Last night, while remembering all my online endeavors, I mentioned to Byron how sad I was that geocities shut down last year, and that I hadn't had the time to find a place to upload all my files. Well, whenever I'm feeling sentimental, I tend to start wikipedia'ing, so I looked-up geocities, and down at the bottom, found a link to another site, www.geocities.ws, that is working to archive all the old geocities sites.
Bingo! Maybe this is where I can upload my files.
So I mosied on over to geocities.ws and tried to make an account, but imagine my surprise when my old geocities screenname (Crimson110!) came back as unavailable. (Because, seriously, who else is going to try and make their username Crimson110?) Well, after a lot of digging around, and answering a bunch of security questions (What city were you born in? What is your oldest cousin's name? What street did you grow up on?), I managed to gain access to the Crimson110 account... and it was mine.
All my files were there. Everything was just like I left it on geocities. Someone had archived me! (and I didn't even know it!!)
I don't know who or why or how they did it, but I'm so happy! I feel like my old website somehow found its place in internet history. :)