This Used to Be My Playground.

"Back in the proverbial day, GeoCities was the place where many a modern-day internet nerd cut his or her teeth. After a spectacular dot com purchase of $3.65 billion and an equally spectacular dot com bust, its closure marks the end of one of the earliest ages of the social web."

We're still a few weeks shy of the tenth anniversary 'round these parts. Nonetheless, GitM's original home is, as of this morning, defunct: Yahoo has followed through on their April announcement and is closing Geocities today. So long, old bird -- the neighborhood(s) just won't be the same without ya.