Did you have a GeoCities website before Yahoo! closed it down last week? Feeling nostalgic? If so, fear not, because a lot of the massive online neighbourhood has been rescued and now lives on at Reocities.com. There’s a fantastic timeline of the making of Reocities which proves that it was no mean feat to pull off. Read more »
Go, go, gadget widgets! This must be what Inspector Gadget would say if he had Yahoo! Widgets–formerly known as Konfabulator–installed on his system. But, alas! It’s Google that uses the term “gadgets” to call its, err, widgets, with its own collection of applets called Google Gadgets, part of the Google Desktop Search. Somewhat confusing, eh? You’re probably aware of these two nifty ways to make our lives more cluttered than they already are, but for the benefit of non-ForeverGeek regulars or non-geeks (n00bs!), here’s a brief history and a comparison between the two. Read more »
