My Blogging History
I have been blogging off and on, but mostly on, for almost 10 years now. I started shortly after we got broadband in July of 2000. I however was not good at preserving my archives. I switched from so many services and really didn’t care to bring along my old posts. Sometimes I wish I could read them, but part of me is kinda glad I can’t.
In 2000 I started with Blogger. It was simple and easy, but bugged me because it didn’t have commenting at that time. From there I went to a free host (they were plentiful before the dot-com bubble burst), and used desktop software to manage my blog. That worked for a while, but wasn’t ideal, so then I finally broke down and paid for hosting.
The first blogging software that I used was Greymatter. I used it for a while, but then everybody seemed to be using Movable Type, so I switched. I was probably on Movable Type longer than other the other services before combined. Then in 2004 TypePad started placing greater restrictions on its use without paying for it, so I switched to WordPress, and have been on WordPress ever since. A couple different domains, and hosts, and here I am, still tinkering around on the net, hence the name tinkr.net.
When I first started blogging it seemed like you could read almost every blog out there. I felt like I knew the people behind the blogs I read. I was never good at leaving comments though, so a lot of them never knew much about me. Back then I would also blog about a lot more personal stuff. Nowadays, I feel my life is pretty boring. I blog when I have something to say, like this monster post, but for the most part I just post stuff that I find cool on the interwebs.
Many of my favorite blogger have dropped off the face of the internet. Some of them I have found on Twitter, but it seems like Twitter is keeping a lot of people away from their blog. I think I will always have a blog, but probably won’t always be blogging. I don’t ever want to drop on the face on the internet. I want a little place to call my own where someone can always find me at.