A Bit of Xanga History...

Here’s Bianca: a “blast into the past" (Her weblog was deactivated, but Xanga couldn’t delete this archive.  Comments can be read, too, if you say “no” to debug when accessing them.)

Who was Bianca?  A Xangan "entity" who joined on 11/29/00, was banned for “ a violation of Terms of Use” on 4/28/01, but who in the meantime was one of the most loved Xangan personages—as attested by the comments and eProps left for her on her blogs.

Bianca was incredible.  Within three weeks of “joining”, she was canvassing (codeword: spamming) countless GeoCities members with a highly personalized e-mail recruitment appeal to join Xanga.  On December 18th, the first Xanga recruits, heeding Bianca’s appeal arrived.  I was late: I arrived on December 20th!  Lots and lots of us trickled in, all summoned by Bianca:

destini's Xanga Site Hey, welcome to my site.  I just started it so if it sucks, I'm sorry.  I just heard about using weblogs from this girl named Bianca who e-mailed me saying she liked my my Doors tribute page.  And she said that she was noticing my writing style and that the weblog format might work really well for me.  So.....here I am!!!!  Well, I guess that's it for now. 

But sometime in March 2001, the fair winds ceased to blow into Bianca’s sails.  She had an unannounced hiatus of a month or so—no blogs!  Xanga was sad!  Yet towards the end of April she had returned with a brand new recruitment of Angelfire websiters.  What was even more amazing is that upon her return, not only had some of our earlier "GeoCities" comments disappeared from her time-stamp updated blogs, but so had some of our props!   Excuse me!  Even seanmeister or Mr. Wizard is not capable of such discriminate eProp deletion!

Less than a week prior to Bianca's "expulsion", I had a Xangan psychic intuition:

from an entry Posted 4/23/2001 at 2:09 am :

I just awoke from the shower/bathtub (where I had fallen restlessy asleep) .  I am startled and instantly drawn back to this Xangan connection, which I left open behind a firewall.  Energetically, I am overwhelmed by a vague notion of impending structural change.  *critical mass* ? *service* ?  What is all of this??  Xanga's sailing again.

Immediately following Bianca's burial six days later, Premium service was born and the daily/weekly eProp leader count was dropped.  Xanga was rippling with changes!

Now, let us bow our heads in a prayer for Bianca:

O Bianca, had you still been around we’d never had needed the Xangalympics.  By the way, who the hell won the Xangalympics?  Premium for Life was the Grand Prize, wasn’t it?  And did the winning team ever get notified of their premium gift??  Round-trip tickets for all and a week’s stay at a resort on the isle of St. Thomas, wasn’t it?