I Killed My Graduate School Personal Website

Every Friday I receive an email from SiteMeter telling me how many visitors have come to the personal website I created as a graduate student.  I haven’t changed that website, let alone SFTP-ed into that server since May or June of 2007.  Sometimes I’m amazed to see that people still visit that site, and sometimes I’m not; when you google search “Lindsay Tabas”, the link shows up on the first page of results.

So this morning I decided to bid farewell to the site by loading an index.php that resets the header to this url:  www.lindsaytabas.com.  I backed up all the original files onto my external hard drive, and anyone can still navigate to the old site by going to this address here.

I’m killing my site, with a short eulogy.  This site was the first place I learned about building HTML, using PHP, CSS, and XML.  I started using SiteMeter instead of Google Analytics (and I cannot really remember why, but I use GA now).  The coolest thing I learned over the past 4 years of getting these updates every Friday was that the world was very small, and people could find me from far off and interesting places.  My tribute to all those 2,214 visitors is this picture, something I found very humbling to look at every Friday morning, but also something that made Friday morning one to look forward to:

My Last Site Meter

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