All These Years
When I woke up this morning, a voice in the back of my head reminded me it was a special day, but I couldn’t remember what was so special about it.
I opened iCal for a clue, but there was nothing.
I called home to check if it was someone’s birthday, but no dice.
I asked a few of my three dimensional friends, but none of them knew.
It was only after I asked one of my oldest online friends that I found out just what was so darned special about April 14, 2008.
Or more accurately, what was so darned special about April 14, 1998.
Ten years ago today, I wrote my very first blog entry.
It all started on the 10 megabytes of free hosting space I was given by my ISP and a handful of static HTML documents. It then later moved to Open Diary, then to Greymatter, then to Movable Type.
Over the last 10 years, I’ve posted on 5 different domains, using seven different computers, to write hundreds of thousands of words, from three different states and a Canadian province, ranging in topic from what I ate for dinner the night before, to covering the (at least) half a dozen major life dramas I’ve been through. And I’ve tried to do it all gracefully.
However, I do just have one little bone to pick before wrap this up.
I understand that the upper echelon of bloggers is deferred to and respected above all others, but they weren’t the only ones here in the beginning.
And while my own effort as part of the Blogosphere hasn’t been as strong as Jason Kottke’s (whose blog I do like, don’t get me wrong) the fact remains that I started only a month after him.
I wonder if Six Apart will write a post for me?
Anyhoo. Here’s to 10 years.