1998 marked my absolute obsession with The X-Files. I loved that show, I lived for that show and I was addicted. Besides that Special Agent Fox Mulder made my little adolescent heart skip a beat. So to get my daily X-Philes fix, I forged through Netscape to get it. And oh, dear God, did I get it.

Hundreds of pages came up when I searched the term “X-Files”….including your usual porn.

I sifted through hundreds of fan sites and after awhile a common trend started to appear. Geocities.com. Not only were there X-Files geekry on these Geocities pages, people also had personalized homepages.

I asked myself, “What is this Geocities?” I had to get in on this shit, and quick. This was extraordinary. This was mind blowing. THIS WAS THE FUTURE.

From that day the name jesmes15 was created. www.geocities.com/jesmes15

It was a website about me, it included pictures of my friends, and of course a section, or may I say, page dedicated mainly to X-Files. My friend’s raved about my page, always checking on it to see if I updated, and even showing their families members who were also impressed. I thought I was a innovator. I thought I was a designer. I thought I was an engineering genius!!….well actually, I didn’t code shit, I just used their Drag-and-Drop tools…..But hell, I didn’t know the difference at the time.

Anyway, thank you Geocities, you were there when I was a noob. When I saw myself as lame, you gave me confidence, into making me think I was a great web designer, when actually I wasn’t. Ironically, I quite dislike web designing….but that’s besides the point!

You were the foundation for social networking. Without you, there would be no RateMyPic.com, AsianAvenue, Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.

You made internet designing easy and you brought so much joy to noobs, like myself. So again thank you. You shall be missed, sweet prince of Web Hosting. Good bye.