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History of LJ
Jan. 22nd, 2019 10:08 pmOn the evil FB today, there was a link to an Ars Technica article about the History of LiveJournal. It brought about that early sense of wonder for a long-form blogging. I had the lifetime subscription to LJ, because I had a little money to throw at them in what, the early 00s? So many icons, so much fun making them.
You know what I miss? Having conversations without ads. So very few memes. Maybe it was the time, maybe it was the platform.
And then the dark times came. The sales of LJ. Moving the servers to Russia. Taking away https. The stupid silly games on FB, like trading fish to your friends. I threw out a page a notes that I had of which friends needed which kind of fish. Yes, that note got cleaned up in the last 3 months, despite the fact that I haven't played a game on the Facebook for years.
LJ, MySpace (I don't Tom ever sold our info!), Blogger. Good times.
I have the newsletters I wrote for our gaming group in college, but I don't think I have the html from my website when I had a personal one. And I hand coded that monster with an early vi implementation on Windows (bow before my geek cred ;-P) because those graphical tools like HoTMetaL just didn't cut it.
Well, now I am older and need to sleep. Good Night DW.
You know what I miss? Having conversations without ads. So very few memes. Maybe it was the time, maybe it was the platform.
And then the dark times came. The sales of LJ. Moving the servers to Russia. Taking away https. The stupid silly games on FB, like trading fish to your friends. I threw out a page a notes that I had of which friends needed which kind of fish. Yes, that note got cleaned up in the last 3 months, despite the fact that I haven't played a game on the Facebook for years.
LJ, MySpace (I don't Tom ever sold our info!), Blogger. Good times.
I have the newsletters I wrote for our gaming group in college, but I don't think I have the html from my website when I had a personal one. And I hand coded that monster with an early vi implementation on Windows (bow before my geek cred ;-P) because those graphical tools like HoTMetaL just didn't cut it.
Well, now I am older and need to sleep. Good Night DW.
