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I wish more of the people posting about how they've had blogs for decades would link the blogs

I’ve had a continuously updated record of my reading since 1995. It began as manually updated HTML and then I made a PHP script to back it with a database. I never got around to writing the admin page so I still update it with phpMyAdmin after writing the entries in TextEdit. Some day, when I have time, I may fix some of the CSS and other formatting issues, but I think most of the traffic it gets is me using it to refresh my memory about something I’ve read in the past.

https://don.dream-in-color.net/books/

I can recommended BookWyrm for this!

With nearly 2000 entries in my system, I’m not eager to move to something new. I do add new reads to my Goodreads and I have a catalog of the books I own and have read on LibraryThing, but part of what I like about this is the continuity of the pages where there’s a long history that goes back to when my personal site was at ftp://cyberg8t.com/~dhosek

I've traced archeological layers remaining in my blog all the way back to at least 1999. It's been on worldmaker.net and/or blog.worldmaker.net since 2002 as I recall. For a period in the 90s there was a "Zine" component, and the word "Blog" wasn't even invented yet. There are some big lost layers from database drops in the middle there. The most contiguous history seems to start around November 2004, with the most recent migration from databases to Git a "recent" 7 years ago in 2015.

It's been a weird journey.

Does 1.5 decades count? [0]

I even have a similar article about blogging (old but still relevant, I think)[1]

[0] https://sheep.horse/everything.html

[1] https://sheep.horse/2017/4/so_you_want_to_start_an_unpopular...

Imagine going back to the nineties and saying "check out my blog at sheep dot horse."

Reminds me of that old SNL sketch: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99adillon.phtml/

Part of the joy is finding them serendipitously on your own though. Still, if you're not too fixated on the age and more interested in a place being a personal site, here's a thread with a random collection from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156868

Maybe because it feels self-promotional? So along with mine (https://maya.land/posts/) I'll share my blogroll (https://maya.land/blogroll.opml) of the many, many RSS feeds I follow. :)

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