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Tag: retrospective

13.07.2000 – 13.07.2004 [en]

My weblog turns four today. A brief look back on what has changed since then.

[fr] Mon weblog a quatre ans aujourd'hui. Voici une brève retrospective. Mon interview Blogpipole vous racontera en français comment j'ai commencé à  bloguer.

Four years already that this weblog exists! Over a thousand posts, an insane number of categories, and somewhere between 200 and 550 visitors a day — depending on my posting frequency, the weather, and if Joi mentions one of my posts or not ;-). I have never been a frighteningly prolific blogger, but well, there must be something to be said for keeping it up all these years!

Four years ago, I was at my brother’s, I had been back in Switzerland less than a month after spending a year in India, and I stumbled upon Blogger after seeing it mentioned a few times on the sites of the kind folk who haunted the much-regretted Astounding Web forums.

I couldn’t really figure out what this Blogger thing did, so I created an account, and I saw the light.

I’ve gone from fiercly anonymous to having my name “all over the web”, I now have my own server, I’ve learnt CSS, PHP and MySQL in the process, launched three other websites, and travelled around Europe quite a bit, meeting fellow bloggers.

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Author Stephanie BoothPosted on 13.07.2004Categories CTTS NewsTags 2000, 2004, age, anniversary, anonymous, blog, Blogosphere Interest, blogversary, css, four, mysql, php, retrospective, server, since, Site News, time, Travels, weblog, years4 Comments on 13.07.2000 – 13.07.2004 [en]

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Climb to the Stars is Stephanie Booth's personal site. Blog powered since summer 2000. Follow her on Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Instagram. Maybe Tumblr and Flickr. No Facebook, I've been disappeared.

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