Wriging

I've been blogging since I was 13 or 14, so over 7 years. I talked about it a little bit in my 9rules interview (the first question).

Since the middle 90s (Usenet, etc.). Not much of the early stuff online as far as I can tell, but I have it all backed up somewhere. I always wanted to put a site together one day just to chronicle my first and later steps with complete mirror images of all the pages and sites. I still have every single one in a functioning version and have even made some really early stuff compatible in all its ugliness.

Mediocre to weak offers at first, later more of what we could call websites.

Notepad --> Frontpage --> Dreamweaver --> Notepad.

:)

How's that for evolution?

That's basically my story.

I'm with deus here. I mean I'm only 20, but I recall back when I used to "blog" before it was even called weblog about nonsensical things like the very first version of counter-strike, which if I recall, came out in 97?

Deus62 - haha I had a similar progression. Notepad, Frontpage, Notepad-type editors. I never got into WYSIWYG editors.

1997 I had my first blog on Geocities. 1998 I moved to my own domains, never looked back.

Even at such a young age, I too have progressed from Notepad to Frontpage and back to Notepad2. I'm only a baby as well, been going since about February 2005.

Since blogs weren't blogs over here and have every site somewhere also. Around 96-97 I think was when I got a bit more into the proper blogging side really - not that it was labelled that really yet it was more a journal thing. Avoided geocities but was making sites before and then so went that option. I have gone from notepad -> dreamweaver -> notepad -> text edit myself. Bar one job avoided front page.

I just checked:

The first real page I ever made was a table monster programmed for my school (we had a pretty nifty homepage back in those days, incorporating all those cool David Siegel tricks). That page in total has more page weight than my entire site today (and that's basically including each and every page of that site). Today the page sucks horribly (I'm not involved anymore). ;)

It's amazing that in times of low bandwidth, those monsters were actually looked at by anyone (and yes, we did use all those compression and preload tricks to bring down the weight, but still).

If I look at all the various pages/sites I programmed for myself (I think I was also pretty much the only reader of my own site before I got with pMachine), I've always blogged about collecting, first about books (my first real collecting craze that lasted 20 years or so), then about Scandinavian design and then, after I had narrowed the focus more and more, about music, the one passion that had been around the longest.

So, whereas the technological side "de"volved, the content aspect evolved into a somewhat focused niche site.

The next iteration of my main site will narrow the focus even more.

I'm afraid of what the distant future will bring. Maybe I'll overdo all the focusing completely and only blog about one artist, at the end maybe only about one recording session? ;)

Note: Mind you: The latter isn't that far off - I know plenty of collectors who collect every single (re)issue of a recording, bringing up the total to 40 and more copies of the same LP/CD/whatever. Crazy.

I'm with Chris, I started my webcapades back in freshman year of highschool, blogging off and on back before blogging was even a word, and geocities was still organized by "neighborhoods."

Blogging continuously without gaps for three years now.

I was ballin with my own .com as a freshman in high school. Y'all young whipper-snappers today don't think that's special, but Network Solutions had the industry by the balls back then. I had to get my hustle on.

Been blogging for 2 years. I also had my own .com by the time I was in high school...

For me it was Geocities --> downloading and editing templates in Dreamweaver --> creating table-based layouts in Dreamweaver --> creating my own CSS/XHTML standards-based sites with Dreamweaver (just the code editor part)

Well, my current blog is a year and a half old, but I blogged for at least 6 months prior to it on an older site. So I'm gonna say two years.

deus and tyme.. you are really hardworking guys.. notepad for editing? :)

@ chris:

7 years man then I should ask to all the "old/better experienced" bloggers in here to lend us their secrets : how did you survive in the blogosphere through all these years?

@ deus62

thanks for sharing the memory dude....it would be too great to have some screenshots of those oldies blogger time..... would 9Rules notes allow image or something like that?

@ dook

yo are you a fan of counter strike or more of Half Life 1/2? I really love it man :)

@ deus62

I think we should have filmed those moments with different "age" of our site/blog..... wouldn't that been fun...keeping in the archives page a collection of video of each major stage our site went.......from the baby to the geek"titude" :)

@ dotcommakers

notepad is the best....man...you also have InType for M$ Windows...but I wouldn't be touching a Frontpage...it just inserts lots of its "M$" code in that which only M$ certified stuff can read :) lol

Let's see, I had a personal blog of 4 years before getting really sick on writing my personal stuff. After that, my current anime blog is running strong still at 6 months :)

I've had assorted 'personal' websites (with regularly updated 'news' sections, the pre-runner to the blog) since about 1997 or 1998. They were all handcoded in notepad. I first used blogging-specific software with Blogspot April '05 and was on WordPress and own domain by Christmas 2005.

It feels like so much longer :S

@ chris:

7 years man then I should ask to all the "old/better experienced" bloggers in here to lend us their secrets : how did you survive in the blogosphere through all these years?

I kind of didn't survive. I died several times. It's hard for me to write - I'm extremely slow at it (possibly because a large portion of my time is deleting stuff I've written).

I feel young here. I just recently celebrated my 4 years of blogging. At least I can claim that I was blogging before it was even a fad. :)

Man it feels like I started blogging yesterday. Does time ever pass by fast, especially when I've blogged almost every day of the last 4 years.

I've got my first site from back in late 96-early 97.
Back from before I used a blogging software of any sort.

Just HTML on Xoom.com (Anyone else remember the awesomeness that was xoom, before NBC bought them and became nbci.com?)

I've had websites since 94, a site I updated with "news posts" since 1997.

That was infrequent though, the first thing I think I could really call a blog was around 2000.

Haha, yes, I remember the xoom days.

I designed my first homepage (at Tripod) in 1996 when I got my first personal computer -- though it wasn't called a weblog yet, it was where I "blogged" about my family, friends and school.

Since then I've had 2 homepages (one each at Tripod and Angelfire) and 3 blogs (Blogger, WordPress.com and finally my own dot com).

My blogging age? I'd say 18 months :)

Blogging since 2003. I'm a youngin compared to many of you I see.

I'm a 4 year old. Been self employed for 8, marketing for 10. Much the same progression as others here.

I started blogging in 2002, after I had my son. And it was before I knew the term "blog". I started as a Livejournal user, than moved away to blog on my own domain about personal stuff, and blogging about web design stuff on my company blog. Now I own several blogs and don't think it's possible to stop, lol. So I'm a 5 year old when it comes to blogging.

I've been blogging "for real," with a platform and all, since 2002. My first post is still archived on the site. It's cool to see when I changed names and designs and stuff. I've lost a bunch of them over the years but I still have ALL of the content! YAY!

I've had a web site running continuously since late 1994/early 1995.

I can tell you it's a real mess under the hood!

I think my first website was circa 1998, but as far as blogging goes I've had my LiveJournal account since 1999. I'm user #113!

So that's eight years and counting in the blogsphere. Go me.

I've been doing it for a couple years. I'm definitely not the oldest and I've still got so much more to learn.

Rocking it since '03.

I've been blogging two years, but I had my own .com in 1996 for a website I updated regularly, but it wasn't blogging as such.