Back in 1996-97 I made an extremely amateurish geocities site with some unfinished programming tutorials, the most popular of which was on qbasic. I sort of stopped working on it after a while, lost my password, and couldn't get yahoo to authenticate me years later when I wanted to remove my ridiculous site. The bio page is especially embarrassing, and the programming material that is there is of no use today.
Honestly I'm too lazy to expend any more energy in my effort to shut down my site, so naturally I am relieved to see yahoo pulling the plug on geocities. The way I see it, the internet is cleaner without my site clogging the tubes.
My site could live indefinitely in archiving systems, but hopefully someday it won't even show up on a search for "qbasic programming". Will the web naturally garbage collect my orphaned web page, without my intervention?
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Back in 1996-97 I made an extremely amateurish geocities site with some unfinished programming tutorials, the most popular of which was on qbasic. I sort of stopped working on it after a while, lost my password, and couldn't get yahoo to authenticate me years later when I wanted to remove my ridiculous site. The bio page is especially embarrassing, and the programming material that is there is of no use today. Honestly I'm too lazy to expend any more energy in my effort to shut down my site, so naturally I am relieved to see yahoo pulling the plug on geocities. The way I see it, the internet is cleaner without my site clogging the tubes. My site could live indefinitely in archiving systems, but hopefully someday it won't even show up on a search for "qbasic programming". Will the web naturally garbage collect my orphaned web page, without my intervention?