Down memory lane

I had this sneaking suspicion the other day that this blog was about to be, like, 5 years old. Which is, you could say, way too long anyway, what with the frequency of posting here, and — even worse — the quality of what is posted.

The very first post that is still around is dated Feb. 14, 2002. Lovingly dragged around ever since (4 hosts; soemthing like 5 different blogging systems.) Actually, the domain here itself seemed to be around November 2001. I think I seem to be able to remember something about using Blogger for a while around that time? If I did, I did not save anything. Probably for the better, then.

One thing that strikes myself as a slightly interesting enterprise, is to look at the then blogroll. Let us see: March 29, 2002 I had 20 links. Of these, the following are still active sites:

AlterNet (not really a blog though), Arts & Letters Daily (sorry about that — but I think that D. Dutton was less of a right-wing hack then?), Caterina.net (and the site looks very much the same today – just shows that good design is timeless. Or something), Daypop (but is it really functional any more?), Ftrain (still going very, very strong — except for the oddly unexplained hiatuses. But we all know about those…), glish.com the domain exists, but the last update on the front page seems to be 30 months old, kottke.org is still there, still going strong (and with a remarkably consistent look for all those years), memepool still being updated (perhaps with less zest than 5 years ago?), Oblivio is around, updated, looks the same, the content still of the same high standard as then, peterme: yes: alive and well (but, hey: a new, spiffy look), the Obscure store is alive (and looking pretty the same as back then), Textism has not been officially closed (but 251 days since last update and counting…), Tom Tomorrow is accounted for, wood s lot is still being updated by hand and is still an apostrohe short, and zeldman is still very much in business.

So, an amazing 14 out of the 20 are still around, and a surprising number have kept their good looks all that time.

The following four are missing, and have declared so (though the domains are still around and still registered): NUblog, Open Brackets, sylloge and 0format (well: this last one gives a 405 Forbidden, though.)

Hoopla500 was snatched away from Leslie Harpold by some idiot. It seems as if whomever controls the domain now is not an expert Rails developer. Leslie moved her great writing over here, but we lost her nonetheless: Leslie Harpold Remembered.

January 30th, 2007 / Tags: blogism, down memory lane / Trackback