Ruhi Online Institute

31-12-2011 Saturday 

After a hard day work, when preparing to go home for a long holiday, I began to feel like missing some one a good friend.  

Tomorrow is 1-1-2012 New Year. Company shut down from 1st till 10th January for a long holiday.  

In such a light holiday mood I suddenly remember and miss www.Geocities.com

I came back to Malaysia in 1998 and became a computer technician job. This IT job gave me the opportunity to venture into the Internet world.   www.Geocities.com at this time of 1998 has become a well known site like today’s FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, and Google.  Yahoo! bought this GeoCities.com in 1999. 

In October 2009, GeoCities websites officially shut down by Yahoo!

There were 38 million user-built pages on GeoCities before it was shut down. Within these 38 millions pages were about 40 pages built by me. It’s the Ruhi Online Institute. 

RUHI ONLINE INSTITUTE

Yes! Ruhi Online Institute  was started by me.  I told no one about this except 2 people Mr. and Mrs. Leong who were invited by me to help up in developing. 

Ruhi Online Institute is a  never completed web project. Never complete because of poor “Poor Spiritual Economy” in those years.

Though never reach complete construction, these 40 pages of my Exercises on HTML writing nevertheless prepared my competency in Web site developing in later years .  

The good remarks from the readers sent to me via the pages were a solid encourage to me to pursue Web developing skills.

I missed GeoCities. This American company provided me an international platform to connect to the outside world from this little hidden town of Tawau in Borneo Island.

When Geocities shut down in 2009, so disappeared from the Internet also Ruhi Online Institute along with the rest of 38 millions web pages build by millions of users like me.

Old friends never die, they just fed out of memories. Until this afternoon I suddenly recover from fading memories that I once had a good old friend and that I kept no record to remember GeoCities.com. I want to keep some record of Ruhi Online Institute  before it fed out completely from memories.

Without having to say, the rest of the night after dinner  I spend in recovering Ruhi Online Institute.  

A good heart American with foresight has archived these 38 milliones pages before they vanish and kept in http://www.oocities.org/

There in OoCities.org I found my Ruhi again! http://www.oocities.org/ruhionline/