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Found a geocities page from 1997 that still updates about his garden in Tulsa
I was poking around a webring for old ham radio sites last Tuesday and somehow ended up on a plain white page with green text and a visitor counter stuck at 1,204. The guy has been posting about his tomatoes and his bad knee since 1997, and the last entry is from 3 days ago. He still uses a tag and says his grandkid set it up so he would stop calling the newspaper. What got me was the guestbook, 12 signatures from 1999 and one lonely post from 2018 that just says "still reading, Harold." It made me miss when people wrote on the internet like it was a letter to no one in particular. Does anyone else have a site like this bookmarked, one that clearly gets maybe 2 hits a week but never quit?
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the_mia4d ago
The guestbook part got me, 12 signatures from 1999 and then one from 2018 that just says still reading, Harold. That is the whole internet right there, one guy yelling into the void for 19 years and one guy quietly listening. My own bookmarks are full of dead sites so honestly the only long running page I check is a knitting blog that updates every 6 months and mostly just says sorry its been a while. I am basically Harold in training. Bookmark it, you might be the one who signs the guestbook in 2035.
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