Hello, the internet! At some point last week, I wondered what I had been up to at this time several years ago. Lucky for me, I’ve been blogging since the turn of the century, and I’ve got all those words saved on an external hard drive. I thought I would make this week a week of looking back — seeing what I was up to in March of the early naughts.
A bit of background: Blogging was still very new when I started; I was in college; I was funnier, but spoke a lot more nonsense back then. Oh, and I’ll include photos I took roughly around the time of the original posts. A whole week of new posts of old stuff!
Here are some meta posts about blogging from 2001. The photos were taken with my Lomo and are of the marsh that was nearby my college campus.
18 March 2001
There are webloggers I know who talk about personal stuff on their sites, and after stopping myself from doing so today, I realized that I don’t. –wha-huh? *shrug* Maybe if I had a wider audience I’d feel a little more anonymous, but since I think my viewing public is contained within a five person clique, it’s just not so. Maybe some day I’ll be one of those tell-all bloggers, but today is not that day.
On another completely different note, I took both arms off of The Chair to prepare for tonight’s exciting glue-filled event [I had an excellent reupholstered desk chair which eventually fell to pieces, despite my repairs.]. It was fun until I realized the sharp glue remnants weren’t arm-friendly and thus made it irritating to type. Lucky for you I reattached the right arm to deliver this fine piece of internet journaling. Good evening.
28 March 2001
I love the internet! I really, really do. It’s so funny and quaint and behaves just like normal life. I can’t remember if I’ve talked about this before. I don’t think so. See, I’ve seen how people divide into these crazy little cliques. But, as far as I’ve seen, they’re much friendlier cliques than in real life. I mean, yeah, some sparring goes on, but it’s over much more quickly because stuff just happens like that on the internet. I guess there’re people who’ll always be picking fights because… well, people are like that, but from what I’ve seen, things are pretty decent most of the time. [Ha ha ha ha.]
And there’s sub-cliques within the cliques. It’s just all so funny. I’m not sure why I like it so much, but I find it interesting. Everybody’s got something to offer, even if it’s just ten different versions of a boring day.
Okay, that’s right, I had nothing to update about.
[I'll be back tomorrow with 2002!]
Excellent idea. I knew you were always funny, but I’d forgotten that you weren’t always effortlessly eloquent.
And what were those things called that snuffled around the edges of that marsh?
I believe they were known as Swamp Bunnies (the Shuffle Butt variety).
Robotlove lives on!
I started blogging about three years ago. It was a horrid time (very ill mom) where I just needed to get stuff off my chest. It’s so ironic now because here we are, however many different blogs later, and she’s in the same boat again.
*btw, i enjoy your blogs!*
Hiya…I don’t get to visit often, but because you have provided me with a wonderful Christmas gift (zippered pouches), I wanted to pass on a little award I received from a friend.
You are hereby awarded a Kreativ Blogger award thingie!!! Click on my name to see my post.
I totally didn’t “get” photography then. Mostly because the only cameras I’d ever used were crappy disposable ones. But I was always jealous of your photos.