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As of today, GeoCities belongs to the past. After almost 15 years of offering free web space to anyone with “creative” ideas, GeoCities is no more. Yahoo! has decided to permanently terminate the service, as it was surpassed by the booming blogging and social networking sites.

Like many other internet users of my age, my very first web page was hosted on GeoCities. Half-coded in HTML and half in Frontpage, with lots of GIFs and different colours, my page was not very different from the rest of the GeoCities world!

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for your eyes!), I haven’t kept any of the early versions of my GeoCities page. I only managed to retrieve the last version, which is not too dreadful! Here’s what the home page used to look like:

Note: The monkey was “evolving” into a human sitting in front of a PC, through a home-made GIF

Goodbye GeoCities! We sure had a lot of fun together!

Being back in Greece for the holidays, I caught a glimpse of New Year’s programmes on TV. Disappointing, to say the least.

Luckily, I can go back in time with YouTube (way back!) and enjoy some quality TV moments (in Greek). New Year 1988 ladies and gentlemen:

Last day of 2008; first day (and grand opening!) of this blog!

As we are in a festive season, here are some photos I’ve taken these days of celebrations in the UK and Greece.

Happy New Year everyone!

German Market in Millennium Square, Leeds. Lots of food, fantastic desserts, great mulled wine!

Christmas band in the charity bazaar at University of Leeds campus

Santa with his (real!) reindeer at University of Leeds campus

Christmas decorations in Patras port.