Farewell to io.com

After eight years with it, I closed my io.com account today.

I opened the account shortly after I moved to Houston to take my first professional job, and realized that the college I went to work for did not provide dialup access (how spoiled Ohio State and Texas had made me!). It was the first non-edu account I had ever had (prompting snickers from LWC, who had thought the day would never come).

As time passed, I stopped needing the old account. In March 2005, I set up my gmail account. In June 2005, I left the io.com dialup service area. In October 2006, I set up my new website. My io.com account had become an abandoned hulk, kept afloat only because I couldn't figure out what to do with my old blogs.

That final barrier breached with a migration over the last couple of weekends, it was time to say goodbye. Odd how we become attached to things, just because they have been around for a long time.