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GeoCities may have shut its doors for good, but it doesn't mean the Internet is about to forget it.

Doing a little research for a eulogy I wrote, I couldn't resist looking up my old GeoCities page. Surprisingly, I still remembered its address.

Unfortunately, it seems to be lost forever, but I did manage to find this "under construction" page from my next site-building endeavour on Tripod.com. Too cool for school to just say "under construction", apparently. Everybody has those angsty teenage years, don't they?

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[2:34:21 PM] Victoria Ho: do you like my new blog btw
[2:34:26 PM] Jody Shi: NO
[2:34:27 PM] Jody Shi: i do not
[2:34:29 PM] Jody Shi: it's EMPTY
[2:34:30 PM] Jody Shi: and FOREIGN
[2:34:32 PM] Jody Shi: I DO NOT LIKE CHANGE
[2:34:40 PM] Victoria Ho: this goes to my blog
[2:35:04 PM] Jody Shi: oh
[2:35:06 PM] Jody Shi: so what
[2:35:10 PM] Jody Shi: entry #3?
[2:35:13 PM] Jody Shi: on your EMPTY BLOG?

[1:57:14 PM] Victoria Ho: have you seen my blog?
[1:57:25 PM] Angeline Yeo: YES I HAS I COMMENTED I LURVE IT WAO!
[1:59:31 PM] Angeline Yeo: although i got a bit scared when i realised there were only 2 posts
[1:59:39 PM] Angeline Yeo: and i can't see anything else FREAKOUT OMG
[2:00:42 PM] Victoria Ho: lol yes i have thrown everything away
[2:00:45 PM] Victoria Ho: how do you feel about that
[2:00:49 PM] Victoria Ho: 'cos i feel surprisingly blase about it
[2:01:01 PM] Angeline Yeo: I FEEL INSECURE
[2:01:11 PM] Angeline Yeo: i dont know why but i feel HIGHLY INSECURE about it
[2:03:09 PM] Angeline Yeo: i like that there used to be posts to refer to JUST IN CASE
[2:03:24 PM] Angeline Yeo: now that the just in case is not there i feel insecure
[2:03:37 PM] Victoria Ho: okay weird that i don't have the same anxieties
[2:06:23 PM] Angeline Yeo: okay. too attached and it's not even my blog

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The time has come for my next website revamp, and this time,
everything goes to trash.

Along with my old Wordpress blog of 4 years, this includes my
(much-outdated) portfolio from my freelance photography days, and even
my old, pre-old Blogger blog that I kept mainly for sentimental
reasons.

Having maintained this site in its varying iterations over the past 6
years, I realise it had become an unwieldy presence that had outgrown
my abilities in keeping it streamlined.

There was the frankenstein CSS that I cobbled together over the years,
layering new feature over the last each time I spotted something I
envied on another blog; there were the writing conventions I was
keeping to only for consistency's sake—I can't explain how relieved I
am to finally move from title caps to sentence capping for each post's
header, for example.

And in weighing the many options online, reaching the final duel, as
it may, between Tumblr and Posterous, I've chosen the latter.

I thought it'd be more painful ripping out my site and replacing it
entirely with this veritable vaccuum (for now, at least). But it feels
good, and I expect will reinvigorate me to blog more without having to
face the daunting task of crafting an entire feature article each
time.

So now my old Wordpress behemoth will be reduced to this downgraded
cleanliness. And in many ways, it is an upgrade.

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