my first website
back in 1997/1998, I was in an after-school class for kids who were into computers, and the teacher showed us how to make a homepage on Angelfire, the less popular competitor to Geocities. while Geocities went through a tumultuous affair being owned by Yahoo! before finally being shut down and wiped out, Angelfire and its parent company, Lycos, were passed around in obscurity through companies in other countries – along the way, the content remained accessible, and, despite decades of inactivity, as of the creation of this page in December 2025, my website still lived at its original domain:
https://www.angelfire.com/co/vardiak
I chose “co” because it’s the first two letters of my name; “vardiak”, a nonsense word I made up on the spot, became my go-to screenname for years to come
in March 2026, Angelfire unexpectedly went down and did not recover, perhaps due to instability with Lycos’s Indian parent company. fortunately, I backed up my website and hosted it right here on corb.in! in this version, ads have been removed and the original tiled background image has been restored:
Last Updated: March 18, 2026