Comments on: A blog is a blog is a blog….I think not.

By: t

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

heh. i started out on geocities, back in year eight (was that seven years ago already!). our school used to have a 56k dialup connection, and yahoo! pagebuilder always took an age to load up. still, it was better than playing typing-master, which is what we were supposed to be doing =).

By: Goob

Goob — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for archive.org, I can from time to time go back and look at the three sites I had before Shyzer. Two on Angelfire, one of Geocities. Man oh man were they some horrid things to view. From blinking text, to animated gifs, to horrible color clashes, to even the dreaded music playing in the backgroud. I had them all. And of course, they were all built while in school =)

But it’s where I learned the basics, so I can’t complain. It just reminds me how everybody has to start somewhere!

By: Sran

Sran — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Blogs r rul!

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Oh man, I remember way back when I used to use Angelfire and Geocities.. I’d go to archive.org, but I know how lame it was, and I have no desire to see it.

I’ve been blogging/running a website since around 2000.. the summer before my first semester at USC. It started off as an equal mix of politics, pop culture, and the mundane details of my day. Since then it’s progressed into mostly the latter – with little bits of politics, news, and pop culture mixed in.

It’s moved from me physically changing the index page with each blog update.. then a move to Greymatter.. then a move to WordPress. I do most of the coding, aside from when I have to get help to solve a cross-compatibility issue.

Still.. I say I’m a blog before I’m a webmaster. I don’t do much in the way of subpages.. I mostly just update the blog and move along to other things.

I do wonder how long I’ll keep this up… five years and going strong.

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Ew, correction.. *Still, I say I’m a blogger…

Also, I had no idea the number of blogs was so low in 2002!

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Learn to play nice with the bloggers. They will ultimately be the ones to affect your pagerank. Since you are so obsessed with it. Get them fools to link you.

Also, start posting funny stuff again and get away from your “tug at your heart” stories. Snore.

By: Goob

Goob — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Ally, I know what you’re saying. I’m not against calling myself a blogger from time to time, it’s just that I’m against people saying their webmasters when they’re not. It’s like the old a rectangle can be a square but a square can’t be a rectangle story.

And trust me, you’d be able to call yourself a webmaster if you wanted =)

Stan, PR blows now. Ever since their latest “update” about two weeks ago, it’s horrible. Everybody shot up the ladder and Google has gone back to the drawing board, so until they fix it, I’ve stopped looking at PR.

But I do hear ya about the funny stories. I plan to start authoring more of them once I move up to VA. Until then though, I’ll stick to what I know I can write. =)