alexmikro.net » Personal http://www.alexmikro.net Tech blog by Alexander Mikroyannidis Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:38:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 1 year old… http://www.alexmikro.net/1-year-old/ http://www.alexmikro.net/1-year-old/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:07:07 +0000 Alexander Mikroyannidis http://www.alexmikro.net/?p=585 A year ago, I was starting this blog, after taking a break from loads of christmas food… just like today!
Here’s to another year of blogging! Cheers!! :D

]]> http://www.alexmikro.net/1-year-old/feed/ 4 A tribute to GeoCities http://www.alexmikro.net/a-tribute-to-geocities/ http://www.alexmikro.net/a-tribute-to-geocities/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:37:31 +0000 Alexander Mikroyannidis http://www.alexmikro.net/?p=552 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! :D

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:

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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!

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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:

]]> http://www.alexmikro.net/new-years-tv-nostalgia/feed/ 1 A year ends, a blog begins… http://www.alexmikro.net/a-year-ends-a-blog-begins/ http://www.alexmikro.net/a-year-ends-a-blog-begins/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:12:34 +0000 Alexander Mikroyannidis http://www.alexmikro.net/?p=183 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!

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

Leeds Xmas band

Christmas band in the charity bazaar at University of Leeds campus

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

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Christmas decorations in Patras port.

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