… Was the date of my very first blog post. Blogging has come a long way since that date 13 years ago. I didn’t understand anything at first and relied a lot on the help of my children.
Archives had to be added to a blog manually and comments were added from a third party. A lot of early bloggers had broken hearts as comment’s sites disappeared or merged and comments were lost forever.
I learnt to make alterations to my blog by using HTML. I’ve still got my little.internet.guide to HTML, but I haven’t needed to use it for a few years. Widgets were invented so lots of bits and pieces could be rapidly added at the click of a mouse. Even I could do that.
Blogging has slowed down quite a bit these days as people post to Facebook; even I’m guilty of that. I still love my blogs – all 6 of them!
Here is what my blog looked like in March 2004, thanks to the Wayback Machine.
Blogging sure has changed over the years. I remember how exciting it was way back then. Not that it still isn't exciting, but back then it was all so new. I remember I used to change the header and template on my blog for every season. Sometimes, monthly. Now I can go up to 5-years before I make a change. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat Wayback Machine link is really cool!
Stefani | Dreams of Nyssa
Stefani: Yes, I used to like changing things; because I could. I wonder how many abandoned blogs there are in cyberspace now that there are so many other ways to communicate.
ReplyDeleteI could spend a lot of time playing with the Wayback Machine.
I kinda miss the old blog days when people actually used them daily. Now many blogs are dead or seldom (mine included most months...) touched anymore. I was never one to change the look often, but do a bit more so now, but still like my old look...
ReplyDeleteI do miss the days of exposeyourblog.com and am VERY seriously thinking of paying the extortion fee to get the domain back and set it up again...
Don
Don: I'm not very good at updating nowadays and I deleted a lot of posts on my writing blog when I published my books. Do you think that there would still be an audience for exposeyourblog?
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