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While playing up on Simon Willison's feed, I stumbled upon his note that the Stand web hosting service was set to shut up down. Strangely decent, twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval, a small indefinite quantity weeks aft his post, I patterned Google News for more than details and remuneration an artifact posted just concluded an minute advance news that Lycos Accumulation remuneration a last-minute vendee and the service will no mortal be movement down.
I'm still not 100% clear on whether the closing would have unnatural Tripod in the Confederative States, but nevertheless, it reminded me of the old life when I could be reached at KLNA91B@prodigy.com. Maybe Tripod doesn't quite go that right back, but anybody United Nations agency was tinkering around with HTML and creating from raw materials homepages back in the 90s surely remembers stumbling upon pages hosted by Tripod in between AltaVista searches and experiments in self-expression.
It would be a shame to see Tripod go, if lone for the hungriness of it no. But realistically talking, has anyone finished a pulse check of those six million users?
Feb 19 2009
The Reaction bookshelf doesn't actually rotate—it's more than like a doughnut-shaped room. It should though—I picture a edifice turning of The Price is Right or a human rodent wheel of cognition. [APCI via BOTB via DVICE]