Happy Birthday Little Weblog
Librarian.net is eight years old today!
You can take a peek at what it looked like when I first started it up, April 20, 1999. Back then we didn’t have CMSes and I had to upload the webpages uphill both ways in the snow to bring you all these excellent links. I didn’t have comments (though to be fair, I was slow on that bandwagon even once I moved to Movable Type). I based my design on Jesse James Garrett’s Infosift which predated lib.net by almost a year. I met Jesse mainly because I asked for design help [and to ask if he minded if I copied him] and my friendship with him and a big group of early bloggers paved the way to my work with MetaFilter and a lot of my interest in 2.0 technologies. Today I’m in Dodge City, Kansas preparing to give a talk about the big 2.0 thing and I’ll see if I can wrap all that in together and make it make sense to folks who don’t have a bunch of stuff on Twitter and who may wonder “Why MySpace?”
April 20th, 2007 at 12:25
Happy Birthday!
April 20th, 2007 at 12:28
Happy 8th!
April 20th, 2007 at 2:52
Congrats. Geeze you are an oldie in blogger terms.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:25
Geez, you don’t look a day over six and a half. Thanks for putting rarin’ back.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:40
Yay! Happy birthday.
I’m glad you still have the original pages. It’s always interesting to go back and look at the way sites looked a few years ago, and when old content is all republished in a new format, I think something historical is lost.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:24
Congratulations – wow, eight years old. Perhaps blogs age backwards, like their archives – the older you are, the fresher and more hip to the now. Certainly true in this case.
April 21st, 2007 at 1:26
Happy birfday, librarian.net!
April 21st, 2007 at 6:02
Happy birthday, librarian.net. Just think, next year you’ll get to play with all the cool games, none of that babyish ages 3-8 sh!t, no sirree.
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:37
Good to know your still working on it!
Also good to know just how many talks you keep doing!
Martyn
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:49
You’re probably tall enough to ride on the rollercoasters now, too! Happy (belated) birthday!