I started writing online articles in 2008 when my back finally gave out for good. I'm starting to feel very old, even virtually. I started on Helium.com, now defunct. I moved immediately to AssociatedContent.com, which was later purchased by Yahoo! and changed to Y!CN (Yahoo! Contributor Network) and presented as Yahoo.voices.com. They will be closing and removing all content on July 31, 2014. I feel old.
I'm taking this closing harder than I though I would. I've only written one or two articles this year for that site. When I got the email I thought, "Wow, that's gonna be weird with them not there anymore." I still visited the site daily to check my stats and the forum.
