Ten years ago today I started blogging. I started my blog on Blogger and under a different name. That blog lasted 7 years until I had to take it down because some asshole reported it to my work place. In 2010 I started blogging under this name and plan to keep it that way into the future. Over the years I’ve posted about 4000 entries and received about 1000 comments.
I checked out the internet archive to see if there were any screen captures of my original site but I could only find this one from 2004, about three months after I started the blog. I noticed on the screen capture that I started a website in 1997. I remember that one. It was on AOL. There is no evidence of that one anywhere.
Many of the bloggers I made friends with years ago are no longer blogging. Homer is still blogging. He’s one of the originals. There are a few others but I’ve lost touch with them.
My blog now is mostly for recording things that happen in my life and for posting pictures that I have taken. It’s become more of a record for me then anything else. I like to look back and see what a posted on certain dates in time. I started restoring the archive back to the beginning but I let that go a while ago. I hope to get back to it at some point. It would be good to have the complete 10 years in one place. Maybe sometime in the future.
Happy Blogiversary.
Thanks Mike!
What I like about blogging for a long time is that it provides a record, a way for me to remember stuff I did or what had my attention for awhile. This is good because my memory is bod now. But that means that sometimes I look at old posts, and I’ve completely forgotten I ever wrote it. Does that ever happen to you?
Happy Blogoversary!!
My memory is *bad*, too; my typing, however, has always been worse.
Yes, I do have that problem. I’ve looked back many times and wondered about posts that I had no idea that I’d written. The best part though is that the posts bring back some great memories.