This Blog is 1535 Days Old

Yesterday somebody asked me how long I’d had this blog. I wasn’t sure, so I went and looked. My first post (complete with several typos, oy) was on August 18, 2002:

Popular subjects for weblogs include emerging technologies and American politics, but really they’re about anything and everything. They’re a new genre of writing unique to the Internet. Unique because interactivity and interconnectedness are at the blog’s heart. A fine illustration of the medium being the message, the blog can’t really exist (or be read) without links to other pages (often blogs). Without getting too power-to-the-people, blogs take the “personal Web site” to a new level of sophistication and empowering everyday users who have things to say.

This weblog will, I think, be part list of links, part soapbox and part online journal. Not an online journal in the emotive “I’m-in-love-with-my-dog-and-I-don’t-know-what-to-do” sense, but more in the “I went to this play, and here’s what I thought of it” sense. It’s an experiment more than anything; a way to air a few views, post a few links and generally get some dynamic content on my otherwise very dull personal site. Lastly, as a writer who hasn’t written much other than technical articles and geeky Web content for the past year, hopefully this blog allows me to stretch my creative legs a little.

Oddly, the first ever blog I wrote on was a corporate blog for Cape Clear (quite broken these days), started about a month earlier. That, combined with my day job in web services documentation at the Cape, was what got me interested in blogs in the first place.

I can thank the Duration Calculator for doing the math on this blog’s age. The site itself is about three years older than that. Here’s a, gulp, early version from the Wayback Machine.