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How long have you been blogging?

I was talking to Jules the other day and we were talking about RSS Feeds and Feedburner and all that crazy stuff that bloggers talk about. Then she says to me, “i hate this reader thing. people should just comment and link like the old days.” I totally agree! I remember the old days when you would comment. Hell, I remember the days when there was no way of commenting on a post yet, and you just had a guestbook. Remember those days? Guestbooks were the bomb diggity back in the day.

But I digress.

But in the old days, you would just link to your favourite sites, and that’s how you expressed that you liked a site or you would just comment and that’s how people found your site and whatever. These are the days before SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and money making blogs and well when not just everyone had a blog. Nowadays, everyone has a blog. And there are different kind of bloggers too. I won’t list them all, since I don’t even know all of them that exist. But there are so many it’s not even funny. There are even Spamming bloggers, a.k.a. sploggers. Crazy isn’t it?

When I first started way back in whenever, it wasn’t even called blogging. It was just having a website, updating every now and then (sometimes weekly, sometimes daily) and just saying whatever. There were no such things as Blogger (which I started using way back in 2001 because everyone I talked to said I should use it), and wordpress or any other program that most people use nowadays. It was a website originally called “Psychodaisy’s Garden” where I put down my thoughts and links and had my guestbook (of course). Those were the old school days. Psychodaisy.com was finally created in 2001, but before that I was at the validus.com domain, which was sold for a pretty good amount of money. That domain was my first domain name, which I paid $100 for 2 years to register. That was when InterNIC was the only registrar. How times have changed!

Anyways, how long have you been blogging?

Also, today’s Mother’s day. Have you called your mom today? You better!

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It’s almost Friday
TGIF
Because I update my OWN blog so much…
Happy Birthday Julie!

22 Responses to “How long have you been blogging?”

Poppy Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Since January 2005. :)

Waiting for my cousin to call me so I can head over to my grandmother’s house so I can call my mom.

Colin Brooks Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

I have been blogging since 2004 but I only did it properly with a real blog since the summer of 2005. I had my own site since the late 90’s which contained a collection of photos of me and my friends, song lyrics, links to pages (one of them being google.com which at the time not many people knew about), a lot of banners for other people to use on their sites if they wanted to link to me, a flash animation and other random things which I can’t even remember right now. That site was hosted on virtualave.net for free which after a while the stopped doing. I never attempted to put the site up again and at the moment the files are most likely lost. I remember making a backup of everything but I haven’t seen that disk in years.

My first blog was on MSN Spaces (yes, I know, what was I thinking) which I stopped using in 2005 because I wanted to do it properly and not have all my msn contacts read my intimate posts and moved to blogger. That’s when “therapy in the making” was born. I got sick of blogger in 2006 and bought the domain therapyinthemaking.co.uk installed WordPress and transferred all my posts to it. I had to do it manually at the time and in the process I lost all the comments people had made on the blogger blog. Until now I have not transferred these comments (which I can only transfer manually) because I’m too lazy.

So there you go! Technically I have been blogging since 2004 but officially only since 2005.

I called my mum. She’s in the hospital now and her operation will be on Wednesday if all the tests go well.

LaDonna Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Heh, I started a Blogger blog back on June 14, 2001.

I was taking my first HTML class and while doing some research online, I came across an article about blogging. I was already reading some sites that were online diaries of sorts and had wanted to start one to keep friends and family informed as to what I was up to since school and work were keeping me busy and Blogger was a good tool to get me started.

I first started on Freeservers and I just checked - LaDonna’s World is still there. LOL

All of my old blogger posts are still part of my Expression Engine database. It’s kind of neat to go back through and read the archives every once in a while.

Hm, since my blogiversary is coming up, I guess I should really get my butt in gear and get my blog back up.

laura Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

I comment! I link! :) I think I started in June 2002. Crazy. That’s when there was the blob blog and I was glittering.

Abraxus Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

19th of December 2002 was the very first post I put up on LiveJorunal. I spent almost 9 years with LiveJournal but I just never felt that it was a Community like they kept making it out to be.

When I left LiveJournal to move to Wordpress it was not a conscious choice. I ended up there while helping a friend set up her own Blog because I had heard of Wordpress on G4’s “The Lab with Leo” so I thought I’d help her out by checking in advance of her arrival to see if it could do what she needed.

I had so much fun doing that I created The Threefold Path over there and have been enjoying myself ever since.

One of these days I will explain the insane path I took to get to the name for my Blog. It’s not really confusing just damn long winded. I shall have to learn to do those ‘Cut’ Thingies on Wordpress so I can spare the uninterested my ramblings.

But yeah, 2002. Old man I am.

Jen Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

I first started blogging in 2004- man I have written a lot. I recently have been working on moving from Movable Type to WordPress, and I couldn’t believe how much there was to move. My exported text file had nearly 3 million characters and had to be split in two to import.

The things that I love most about having been a blogger for several years are the relationships I have developed with other bloggers over that time. It seems weird to know people so well that you have never met in person, but it is kind of an amazing thing as well.

daniel Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Ha. This is GOOD… I started in 2003. It was Movable Type. I knew nothing of what I was getting into and had NO knowledge of servers and internet and PERL… So I had my domain and everything all set but couldn’t get MT installed. I finally paid for that but STILL couldn’t quite figure it out as far as what to do with it and got frustrated with the whole thing and left it. It was December before I finally got around to actually blogging though I had the site with MT installed for months.

Once I got going I sought out professional designers (like I said, I knew NOTHING). I found Moxie, the Julie, and the rest my friend you were there for…

Yoshi Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

@everyone omg, this is so awesome to hear about everyone’s stories of how they got started. Everyone should now make a post about how they got started blogging and who or what inspired them (if any)

I think I might do that.

@poppy yeah, 2005 seemed to be the year to start up! :D

@colin yeah i think we had this discussion really, because I remember thinking, “what is ms spaces?” I’m such a noob when it comes to anything MS because i just stay away from it like the plague. hehe

@ladonna yeah you need to get back in soon! i see your site is just down right now. :( but yeah, I still have yet to port my blogger posts in to EE. Only because I had multiple blogger blogs. Ah, the good old days huh? 2001! we started at just about the same time! woohoo!

@laura Yeah, I remember glittering. :D We met during your glittering years, did you stop that site finally I can’t remember. (and i host you! LOL)

@abraxus you should post about your blog name! that sounds interesting and good to know! I’ll look forward to that post. :D So you started with livejournal, that’s very cool. I never got one until it was open to the public. I remember when it was invite only, that was pretty cool. i felt left out because i didn’t know anyone using it hehe.

@jen yeah, it’s amazing the people you meet online and how you become friends and develop a relationship. some of my best friends are online only and I haven’t met them, but it almost seems like we’ve already met anyways, so it seems almost moot. But it’s amazing! BTW, google reader doesn’t seem to like your feed! I’ve been trying to fix that. It seems like it doesn’t know when your site is updated. it makes me sad.

@daniel wow we’ve known each other for at least longer than 2003 daniel. or damn it seems like it. i like that btw, “the Julie” LOL wonder if she saw that. But seriously, we’ve known each other forever man, you had to have started in like 2001 and i started hosting you around 2003. lol seems right.

girlrobot Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

wow…i think i’ve kept some sort of blog since 12 years or so….

cybrpunk Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 7:45 am

cybrpunk.com first became my personal blog site on February 25, 2002. However, the site had been a pre-launch news site for Anarchy Online for at least 6 months to a year before I gave up on that and changed it to a personal blog. So I guess I’ve been posting since at least 2001 or so.

And just for the record, I still don’t use a feed reader. I still visit every site manually and comment when I have something to say. I like seeing people’s sites.

jules Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:22 am

hmmm… the dates are unclear but i started way before blogger and live journal and all that nonsense. i actually resisted those sites because i didn’t want a whiney “online journal” which seemed to be the way things were going at the time… i eventually gave in (like i always do) to blogger. kinda hated it. used a bunch of other services that are now defunct. i then started using graymatter as a subdomain on my friends site. it wasn’t until about 2002 when i met MT that i *really* started blogging though. that lasted 3-4 years. took a break. started blogging again. the end.

soapbox.SUPERSTAR Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

I kept an online journal at Babies Online starting in 2001 when my daughter was born. I stopped journaling there when they started to restrict the amount of photos you could upload and have posted, which was right around the time my son was born. At that point, I made the leap and purchased a family domain through Yahoo, where I also had it hosted. I built and updated regularly an all HTML site there for quite a while. Then I found blogger and realized that it was so much easier to do the journaling on that platform, rather than constantly uploading the HTML site. So I kept the HTML, but had a link to my Blogger site for the journal.

It did not take me long to get over Blogger and it’s lack of features for proper archiving and move on to Moveable Type, which I kept for all of about 3 months before making the permanent change to Expression Engine in 2005, which I have been happy with ever since. I used Yahoo to host me until 2005 when I found that they were not compatible with Expression Engine, so I switched to DreamHost. And that’s where I am at!

diz Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

I’ve had a website since 1996 or so, but I first started blogging in November, 2001. I’ve used Blogger, MovableType, LiveJournal, some off-line CMS, but have been with WordPress the longest and have no plans of moving. This is also my third domain name (not counting my killed ‘music’ blog), and two years in, I’m still not sure it’s ‘me’.

As I recently blogged about, I’d like to make a “best of” hard copy book. It’s going to be tough to weed through my offline archives though - I’ve already started!

Katie Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

Oh man… I’ve been blogging since before it was called blogging too. My first website was on AOL back in… 1998 I think. LORD ALMIGHTY I just realized I’ve had an internet presence for 10 years. I feel old all of a sudden haha. Then I had a diaryland diary with a guestbook since there was no such thing as comments… I remember Blogger first coming out.. I avoided it like the plague for a while. Had a LiveJournal (still there!) and a ujournal… did movabletype, and greymatter, and a few other things.

wow. yeah. me and the internet, we go way back.

Poppy Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Hmm, if we’re talking *internet presence* I have two other dates to mention:

(Some month in) 1989 my brother sat me down at his Commodore 64 with a 300 bps modem and said “this is a chat room.”

February 1990 I got my own modem and from there my Poppy alias was born. :)

(Some month) in 1991 I created my first web page.

…but I just didn’t do journaling…

January 2005 is when I saw the word of the year was blog and I wanted to learn the technology so I did. Rest is history.

There’s my more complete answer. :)

Poppy Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

(And by two I happen to mean three. :D )

Daddy Forever Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Two years for me. But I’m having trouble finding time to blog as often as I use to. If I blog more, I have less time for something else.

cybrpunk Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

omg Poppy, you did NOT just go back to C64 days. If we’re going to start dredging up our pre-Internet experiences on-line this could take forever. Dialing into BBS services, playing text MUDs, telnet to web sites when they first started and graphical browsers weren’t available yet…. Damn, now I really feel old….

Poppy Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

I was a SysOp for a BBS all 4 years of high school. :)

Lynx… gopher… kermit…

ack!

I PPH command line.

And my favorite games on the C64 (totally off topic) were Impossible Mission, Below the Root, and MULE.

*GEEKED OUT*

Yoshi Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

Holy crap are we going to the BBS days?

Do you guys remember WWIV or Telegard? Wow, I was a sysop for both of those. I actually wrote some stuff for WWIV and Telegard myself. Holy cow that brings me back.

I remember loving the game LORD… OMG and how many hours did I waste on Trade wars. Holy crap.

I must blog about this now. hahaha

As for the C64, I don’t remember much about it really. Hahaha. OMG

Yoshi Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

Oh and remember how long it took to send “internet” e-mail through like FIDOnet? LOL I remember sending my first email, it took a week to get there! hahaha