Last Blog on Multiply

If you look at the top of this page, you will probably see the following message: "From December 1st, we will unfortunately no longer be able to support Multiply in its current form. Read the details". What this means is that the new Indonesian owners of Multiply have decided to turn Multiply into an e-commerce site for Southeast Asia. All blogs and other material will be removed. So, therefore, all my future blog entries will be at the following site:

http://www.blogster.com/nathanson1947/

After having had to move here when Yahoo 360 closed, it is a pain having to move again, but sic transit mundi.

Deena's Blog Challenge or How I ended up on Multiply

By the spring of 2004, I finally realized that one could get a Yahoo e-mail account without actually having to own a computer. So from August of that year until a year later, I could only use the computers in the library. This limited my use of computers to a great extent, but at least it was better than nothing.

A year later, I found out that my brother had a spare computer in his basement in Toronto, and this computer was eventually brought to me in Montreal, and connected to the Internet in late July 2005.

In September 2005, I found out that a Pagan online study group, Blackcauldron, was going to be starting soon, so I joined, not even sure if I would have the time for it. That is how I met Karen, who was leading the group.

A few months afterwards, I found out that Karen had a blog on Yahoo 360, so I started to follow that blog.

Around December 2005, Karen's blog went completely private (so that only she could read it). I missed reading this blog so much that I ended up starting my own Yahoo 360 page. I was quite active in 360 for close to two years.

Around October 2007, I began to hear from many sources that Yahoo was planning to discontinue 360. I started to tell everyone I knew about this.

More and more rumours began to circulate about possible effects from the impending closure of 360.

I had already started a Multiply page in the spring of 2007. So when a lot of people began to move from Yahoo to Multiply, I had already a back-up site.

Around this period, I mentioned to Karen that 360 was about to close. Karen investigated, and decided to switch to Multiply, along with a lot of her friends.

And thus, this group got formed.