Reminiscing About The Good Old Days – Almost 20 Amazing Years Of Blogging!

The Good Old Days – I’ve been reminiscing all those years of blogging

Trying to think about something to post about today and couldn’t come up with a topic to write about until I got to thinking back to when I used to post several times a day. Yup, although this domain is new, I’m not new to the blogging world. But how did I manage to do that? So I opened up The Way Back Machine.

I discovered how long I’ve been doing this after searching through the old archives and finding the first blog post I ever created on WordPress. Furthermore, it brought back memories of the days when I ran my own server at home and hosted my own website using Apache and a DNS Alias service.

Looking back at those early blog entries, I understood why I had written so many of them—they were mostly brief summaries of my day. They were essentially journal entries or diary entries. If you count the days when the site was a BBS (bulletin board service), it has been a little over 20 years since I changed it from a BBS to a blog.

So it all started with a post on November 19th, 2004.

Looking back I realized that I swore a lot in my posts. I guess I didn’t really give a crap about the audience back then. Things were different back then though too. People weren’t so easily offended as they are these days. Ahh, the good old days, I miss them so much.

So my first blog post/journal entry was probably from when I first set up the WordPress CMS on my Apache server. It basically says that I must have been up all night trying to set it all up and it didn’t look like I got much done on the surface.

My living room used to be equipped with a live webcam that I would stream all day and night. Back then, it was a thing. The new developments in video streaming technology were a big draw for visitors to your website. We will be implementing a pet cam next year that will stream 24/7. So that’s something for you to look forward to.

Looking back and reminiscing on the good old days on all these old posts gave me the idea of starting a series called “Friday Flashbacks.” It will consist of old posts I did way back in the olden days. I’ll post the ones that make things look so crazy compared to today. For example, I go on about a new ISP Connection that gave me the whopping speed of a 434.3 KB/sec transfer rate. I was ecstatic over how fast that was, LOL!

They will mention some old blogging buddies who have since passed away or stopped blogging completely. Should be a fun emotional stroll down memory lane.

Cheers!