Anniversary
I’ve had my website for a year now. What follows is a brief chronology.
May 30, 2002: First entries. Site made entirely in Notepad, the interface based on a sketch of a hand I made in Poser/Photoshop.
June 2002: I port the site to Movable Type, using a very slightly modified version of what was then the default template. It’s renamed to “AaBlog 1.0”, and hosted for 4 dollars a month on a budget webhost.
July 2002: My first home-brewed CSS design.
August 2002: I catch the accessibility bug and redo the whole site again to be XHTML compliant and accessible.
October 6, 2002: My father starts reading the site.
October 20, 2002: I make the first post about this girl I kind of maybe like a little bit. She sees what I wrote and gushes back in her own online journal. (She didn’t, however, know that I read her journal, and was later a little embarassed.) Isn’t geeky romance adorable?
November 2002: I decide it’s time for some change and do yet another rehaul, including upgrading the name to “Aablog 2.0”. The design is Antipixel-inspired and the colors are autumn-y.
February 19, 2003: I make 100 entries in one day. People start to look at me funny.
March 2003: My host organism runs out of blood, and I decide the site is important enough to invest in a domain name and a quality host. Naturally it’s not possible to do such a thing without also getting involved in a total redesign, so that eats up a couple days of free time.
May 2003: The site gets 1276 visitors (55,040 hits).
Last sunday: My grandfather discovers the fun of looking people up by searching for their names on Google, and arrives at the site.
Yesterday: Exactly one year of blogging. I’m a big boy now.
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Reflecting on it (partially because I remembered Kieran mentioning it a few days ago), watching your site progress is like watching you progress - the entries take form of that part of life you were in, and eventually, through I’m assuming what is practice of writing, the entries become better, in a sense.
I suppose that’s the point of a blog, but I found it mildly amusing.
Posted by Ryuko at June 1, 2003 6:07 PM :: LinkI don’t know — a couple of my favorite entries are actually from the first couple months.
Posted by Aaron at June 1, 2003 6:23 PM :: LinkActually, my two favorite entries of yours are Eye of the Beholder of the Storm and Story, and they’re both 2002, so I guess you’re right. Maybe I was just self-referencing, as people tell me the quality of my site is better now than it was as Byakuren (possibly because of the lack of Hajikudo-stylin’ in the site now? Who knows.)
Posted by Ryuko at June 1, 2003 8:31 PM :: LinkHeh, I remember this starting up because I remember reading it a morning before finals. Good times.
Posted by Ben at June 2, 2003 5:30 PM :: Linkmmm my favorite had to be the story of the broken wrist. i’m all for serious, meaningful pieces, but smiling is the second best thing one can do with one’s lips, and that entry definitely made me smile a lot.
Posted by sylvia at June 2, 2003 6:42 PM :: LinkI think the worst thing about this is that I have nostalgia for another person’s web journal.
Man, I better get a life.
Posted by Ben at June 4, 2003 8:39 PM :: Link“October 20, 2002: I make the first post about this girl I kind of maybe like a little bit (or a lot).”
mmm good times…
…that only got better ;)
Posted by Becca at June 5, 2003 4:20 PM :: LinkPost a comment
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Unfortunately, I’ve lost my archives like 3 times, so I don’t have an exact start date… I’d guesstimate middle-of-Junish, because I was asking you in school how to set up Movable Type before I got frustrated and said screw it. Ah, what times those were…
Posted by Ryuko at June 1, 2003 6:03 PM :: Link