release

On this date in 1999, a weblog was born. At the time, there were somewhere around 300 people writing weblogs. One year later, it was 60,000. Now, there are something like ten million.

That was seven years ago. To put that in perspective, just a few weeks after I began blogging, the world waited with breath stilled to see if the lights would stay on when the calendar rolled over from 1999 to 2000. (They did.) Bill Clinton was sleeping on a couch somewhere in the White House Residence. The World Trade Center still stood proudly over New York. Gas cost $1.25 a gallon. The Internet boom hadn’t stopped booming. A little Texas company launched a service called EnronOnline. The Florida State Seminoles were #1 in the nation, en route to their second national championship. I was engaged, but not yet married, and kids seemed far off in the future. I could write this list for days, and the only thing I would exhaust is your patience. But check the archives and you’ll get a sense for a lot of the rest.

My world and yours are much different now than they were seven years ago, but in many ways, they are also the same. I’m still blogging, and I don’t plan to give it up anytime soon (excepting the occasional hiatus).

Check back in 2013. You’ll know where to find me.