My blog was nine yesterday. Which is 205 in human years.
Back in pre-history, when I began blogging, it was very cutting edge, I’ll have you know. There was no facebook, no twitter, no tumblr and no youtube. It’s hard to know how we filled the long empty days.
In a nostalgia fueled search, I came across a post from February 2006 which reminded me of how much I enjoyed a blogging community when I started off on 20six (my first platform – now defunct – none of the links on that 2006 post work now). I was quite lonely and far from home with my first baby and 20six became a support community. I remember Mr. Waffle printing off all the comments when the boys were born and bringing them into the hospital. I still follow some of the people I used to read on 20six on other platforms; a lot of them turned up on twitter.
After 20six folded, I stuck with blogging. I did miss the community but I became fascinated with the idea of keeping a record of our lives. And I loved writing text that no one cleared except me. Did you see how I started a sentence with “and” there? Also, because of the whole blogging thing, I got interested in technology and, although I am pretty ignorant by most standards, compared to some other Irish 40 somethings I am quite the technological genius. This may say more about the digital divide than it does about my abilities but there it is. I was in a position to wow the residents’ association by setting up a wordpress.com blog for them. Mind you, they never used it but that is hardly my fault.
So, happy anniversary to me and thank you for reading.
Happy Anniversary x x x Looking back at that birthday post brought a tear to my eye seeing the name Beachhutman. I’m still happy I know people from those days.
I know. I feel so nostalgic for 20six sometimes. That was a great community. And twitter just isn’t the same. Particularly if you’re long winded like me.
2003??? Good heavens. I did’t even hear the word blog until either late 2004 or early 2005, so you’re definitely a techie genius in my book! Good for you, and thank you for continuing to share stories from your corner of the world.
Congratulations. And may I say that your blog was one of the inspirations for setting up my own WordPress site. Keep up the good work.
Kara, thank you for reading – you are so good to comment as well.
MT, I am honoured. Your site is very beautiful. Though different in focus.
20six was a wee bit like being back at school and remembering I was never going to be one of the cool kids. But it was a good place to get started and I still follow a few folk from there
20six. Now there’s one from the old-gods’ time. Hasn’t the world become a very different place since then, ‘waf? Much of it is still good of course but then some is just tattered flags on the breeze and broken hearts & words.
Anyway, I’m glad to see you & yours thriving. Love the blog and yes I do drop by from time to time. But you know that!
Still out here, still looking…..
JD
Welcome back Jack…