I was trying to figure out when I started blogging, and I’m at a total loss. I think mostly because it depends on how one defines “blogging”.
My first post with “automated” blogging software was on November 29, 2007. But that’s not when I started what I consider to be blogging.
Before that I was hand-coding HTML here on erikrubright.com back to March 15, 2007 when I purchased the domain name. And before that the precursor to this site was robertanderik.com, which dated back to at least November 28, 2000. (Most of those entries have been migrated to this blog.)
Then there was the AOL-based “diary” website I coded before that. Yes, AOL. That dated back to sometime around 1996 or so.
Or what about the online “diary” of sorts I had on my first ISP, cswnet.com, back in college around 1993? All hand coded HTML. Way back in the days before the World Wide Web was very graphical at all. Do you remember Lynx?. Sadly, most of those zeroes and ones have been lost to wherever electrons went to die in those days.
I guess I’ve been plying with HTML for longer than I care to admit.
Maybe I’ll just say my blog is in a perpetual state of unbirthdayness with no real start date. Sometimes it’s just hard to pin down a “first”. As opposed to being pinned by your first. 😉
Happy unbirthdayness to my blog!
Until next time...
Hey Erik…. Happy new year!! Glad to see you’re still blogging 🙂 David
Howdy D@vid! And belated Happy New Year to you too! It looks like you’re back blogging! Or else I missed the “I’ve moved” notice.
My friend Gregory, who introduced me to blogging in 2004, wrote his own newspaper in grade school: the Gregory P____ Times. He typed it up, mimeographed it and distributed it to his classmates. His first blog 🙂
I got in trouble for passing notes. Does that count? 😉
And lynx is still being used, believe it or not.
On purpose? Wow.
I wonder if anything of mine from the 1990s still exists anywhere.
Look on the WayBackMachine: http://archive.org/web/web.php
I have. And monitor it on occasion. But it doesn’t have any of the early ones saved either. I was just a nobody then. 😉
I couldn’t find any records of mine out there. I’m sure they’ve been purged to make room for all the tumblr backups. 😉
whatever it is , I wish you many years more of blogging.
Thank you, Urspo! And to you too!