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Fort Boise: 15 Years A Blogger

Fort Boise writes re: his 15 years as a blogger:

"Today winds up a decade and a half of my blogging here on fortboise.org, and it's interesting to consider how much has changed. Seems like I was a lot younger back then, and in another world, temporarily relocated to the heart of the dot.com bubble and bicycling to work in Palo Alto. In mid-May, 2000, "search [was] hot" and online advertising was occasional, quaint and mostly not annoying (even though the attack was well-started). Clippy was a thing. Browser standards and HTML were messed up. Irises were blooming, just like today. There was agold rush in domain names. There were Office 97 Annoyances. Pictures were really, really tiny, because data storage cost money. There was a contest to build a website in 5kB or less. (This currently less-than-half a month html file is 6 times more than that, and the iris photo 10x.) yyyymm filenaming made it look like your [0] key was stuck, 200005.html." More here.

Question: Have you ever tried blogging? How long? Why did you quit?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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