You know what, this morning I realised how long I've been blogging for, one way or another. Put it this way, the word "blog" didn't exist when I started blogging. In fact, the word "internet" was only just becoming popular when I was doing it... I started blogging in about 1994. I ran a web site that I called "Dimension X". It was built on an old Mac when I was visiting my mother in Hong Kong. I'd sit in the computer lab at her work (University of Hong Kong) and just tinker. An easy way to entertain myself while my mother worked.
Tinkering with this mac in the lab soon had me coding up some simple HTML. Pretty easy stuff. Yeah, there was no blogging platform or web design applications back then, just a text editor. HTML was pretty new. Did I mention that I actually met the guy that pretty much invented the world wide web? Yeah,
Tim Berners-Lee. I'm not tryna show off or anything.
This "Dimension X" web page was so simple... it had a header image at the top (which I drew on the Mac), and some text underneath. It had about four pages, including an 'about me' page and a 'links' page which linked to other peoples simple, boring, basic pages. I even had links to sites like sony.com and altavista.com. Sites that I thought were impressive back then. These days, anyone's site can be impressive.
My web site was hosted with iiNet (an Australian ISP) which started commercial operation in about 1993 from the owners parents garage. All server's were Linux-based which made for easy web serving. My site was "iiNet member site of the month, for several months"... there were not many member sites! Back then they even had a 'top member sites' page, and even a 'members site index'. I would say they have too many to index these days hahaha.
Unfortunately my site was 'lost in the matrix'... I've had many sites since then. Inverted Reality has been running for about as long as I've had a keen interest in the 'wordpress' platform. In my opinion the best blogging platform available. I think the team are doing a great job and bringing blogging tools to the masses.
Is blogging becoming a lost art with new web apps and social networking, like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and the like? You tell me. Have you been twitting or posting on facebook more than you've been blogging? Are these new web apps great tools to market your blog? Or perhaps at least let your friends and family know you've updated your blog recently? Is RSS dead?
I wouldn't care if a single soul didn't read my blog. In fact there is probably only a handful of people that check it out anyway... it's a great way to get down experiences and thoughts. Subject doesn't really matter (unless your blogging for a living, and even then, it sometimes doesn't matter)
You should start a blog if you haven't already. Even if it's just updates on what crazy shit your grandmother did last week. It's probably good for a read!
