Back in the day, I had a Geocities page. Two in fact. One under this sobriquet of Chennette* and another using my real name. I think it’s been 10 years since that first website of mine, learning basic basic html and creating my own backgrounds from Paint, learning about jpegs and gifs and obsessing about my guestbook, trying to find some aspect of T&T history/culture that I thought I could speak on and making plans for increased content…all of which had to take a backseat not too long after as it coincided with a new phase of my education. Still, the page was happily there for all these years and occasionally I suppose a very few people might have come across it in their wild wanderings through the world wide web. The real-name page was craft-focused and still got regular visits since I kindly shared patterns…
But that brings us to today. Geocities is closing today. I cannot do better than XKCD who redesigned the site to reflect the design elements, html broken code and all, that became the characteristic geocities look, from all those users similarly wading in the very shallow end of html.
It’s almost at the end of the day already so there’s not much to say. I just felt the need to steal a few minutes from my beyond-overwhelming work day to remember when I first thought I could be famous online. 
*Superstitions of T&T is what I ended up with. An idea, a beginning…
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