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My current personal blog, maintained as a Wordpress instance since 2008 is at [http://blog.skyrien.com], which is an aggregation of previous Xanga, LiveJournal, and hosted-Wordpress instances. The timeframe currently spans 2003-Present. | My current personal blog, maintained as a Wordpress instance since 2008 is at [http://blog.skyrien.com], which is an aggregation of previous Xanga, LiveJournal, and hosted-Wordpress instances. The timeframe currently spans 2003-Present. | ||
= History = | |||
My first "blog" was a website I made, where I wrote journalistic-style articles about events of my life in high school. This was back in 2000, and it was hosted on [http://angelex.netfirms.com], which tragically is now lost to time. I wanted to create a public footprint on the [[internet]], my own "Hello World" to the internet at the time, which was substantially different than now. | |||
Later efforts at blogging spanned a variety of service providers, including Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, Vox, WordPress, Medium, Tumblr, but I found WordPress to be, by far, the most versatile for web publishing and content management. Besides, everyone else was trying to figure out how to use my network and time to make money off of me. Xanga's slippery departure from the world was clear evidence that as the internet matures and the capabilities of individuals increases, self-hosted web infrastructure will become more attractive to the technically/politically aware, both to counter the monetization schemes of the ISPs or unnecessary snooping of your content from unknowns. Not that everyone has the means or ability to do so, but if we all became more aware and engage in sound practice with our data, it would dramatically improve the security of the system as a whole. | |||
= Background = | = Background = | ||
I first started writing online purely as an expression of my creative self, in 1995 those now nostalgic early days of the internet | I first started writing online purely as an expression of my creative self, in 1995 those now nostalgic early days of the internet. | ||
Revision as of 10:37, 12 July 2015
My current personal blog, maintained as a Wordpress instance since 2008 is at [1], which is an aggregation of previous Xanga, LiveJournal, and hosted-Wordpress instances. The timeframe currently spans 2003-Present.
History
My first "blog" was a website I made, where I wrote journalistic-style articles about events of my life in high school. This was back in 2000, and it was hosted on [2], which tragically is now lost to time. I wanted to create a public footprint on the internet, my own "Hello World" to the internet at the time, which was substantially different than now.
Later efforts at blogging spanned a variety of service providers, including Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, Vox, WordPress, Medium, Tumblr, but I found WordPress to be, by far, the most versatile for web publishing and content management. Besides, everyone else was trying to figure out how to use my network and time to make money off of me. Xanga's slippery departure from the world was clear evidence that as the internet matures and the capabilities of individuals increases, self-hosted web infrastructure will become more attractive to the technically/politically aware, both to counter the monetization schemes of the ISPs or unnecessary snooping of your content from unknowns. Not that everyone has the means or ability to do so, but if we all became more aware and engage in sound practice with our data, it would dramatically improve the security of the system as a whole.
Background
I first started writing online purely as an expression of my creative self, in 1995 those now nostalgic early days of the internet.