Apr
7
Discussed at Ancarett’s Abode a while back: End of an Era and it sure brought back some sweet memories. I didn’t get clear on the process for requesting migration, so I contacted Member Support and got a reply back from Hobbit herself about changing the email info in my iVillage profile; the one on record was an ivillage email address, long defunct.
Well, old URLs still appear at Google and redirect to an iVillage page, but lo and behold, some of the sites seem to have migrated over with -ivil appended to the former membername - including my very first one, which is what got me started on the whole road I’ve been on since.
Ancarett did a phenomenal job of it, getting that personal homepages community off to a start, and I look back with fond recall to the fun help boards and the weekly chats. Of course there were those interesting membernames, too - like hot4truckers and jellyboons, mamafoofoo and spottydoodle to name just a few.
I somehow found iVillage and joined up my very first day online, and it was my first experience with online communities. There are some great ones around today, but as great as they may be, none has the qualities that made that little homepages group so special. I have a lot things to be thankful for in this life, and that’s one of them.