When I first started blogging, it was good old fashioned text documents and the VI or sometimes PINE editor. How’s that for scary?
In particular, I blogged about my pregnancy. I had a pregnancy diary, from the loss of my first child, Christopher Defiance, to the birth of my son. You can see, if you visit, how ancient this is. GenX’rs may recognize the design, the links, the images, but Millennials and definitely Zoomers will be like, “that’s really scary” and “wow, how ancient” and “how did you do that?” 1 and “how does it still even work?”2?
I also blogged about my journey into Wicca and created a sort of online BOS thanks to my interest in Halloween and on into paganism and ultimately just being spiritual.
I was pretty proud to blog about being a military spouse.
And I did this all by typing in each line individually and a lot of copy and paste for the “fun” stuff (fun then, now it’s just like WTF was I thinking??) Remember when we could “adopt” virtual beings? I do miss the Viking Kitties, but I suspected from the start that Flash wouldn’t be around long. It was good in theory but there was so much wrong with it. I’m glad it went away.. but I DO miss Viking Kitties. You can watch them on YouTube now, but it’s just not the same.
Then there was Yahoo blogs, I moved everything onto there. I tried Geocities for a while too. I think there was one other before I switched to WordPress but low and behold, here I am, still WordPressing. And it has gotten so much easier!
I can do fun stuff now, with plugins. I still like the newspaper layouts so you will see on my homepage that it has a virtual newspaper / magazine look to it. I paid for the damn thing (30) but I still love it so as long as it keeps working, I’ll keep it.
Nearly my entire adult life is on these pages, can you believe it? From my very first website in 1994 (7 years after I graduated high school) to getting married, traveling to Germany, having a kid, getting divorced, getting handfasted, my parents dying, the kid growing up, graduating from high school and college and now married himself, wow. Everything is here.
And there probably isn’t a damn person on this earth who wants to read it.. but it’s still here. And potentially on Archive.org, so it will live on forever.
How wicked cool is that?
This blog is part of a 52 week challenge
Footnotes:
1. View Source
2. Backward Compatibility
