Informal Friday poll: what year did you start blogging? I've put a poll with some timeframes below, but if you want to add some colour please leave a comment. As I mentioned in my post today (

Cybercultural

1999: Blogs Burst Onto the Scene, but RSS Is Slow To Settle

The launch of Blogger in August 1999 signals the arrival of weblogs into mainstream web culture. At the same time, web syndication formats are bein...

), I started blogging in 2002, with Radio Userland. It took me a year to start ReadWriteWeb, though :) So, when did you start blogging?

Of course it's a sport that goes round and round in a circle, getting nowhere and damaging the environment.

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Mediagazer (@Mediagazer@mstdn.social)

NASCAR launches on Substack, becoming the first major sports league on the platform; the newsletter will be written by NASCAR's in-house editorial ...

Ghost or Substack? Eleventy or WordPress? Newsletter or blog...or online magazine? There are a lot of choices these days in online publishing, so I've detailed my own recent experiences in this post. I discuss how I've found Ghost's fediverse integration so far (there are issues, but I'm fully supportive), why you *shouldn't* choose Substack, why I find @Eleventy 🎈 v4.0.0-alpha.6 such a joy, and why #WordPress is in desparate need of modernization. https://ricmac.org/2025/08/21/ghost-substack-eleventy-wordpress/

I was alerted to this by a commenter, but sadly Molly’s old homepage has now been taken over by some scumbag crypto promoter (Molly died in September 2023). This is something all of us have to think about, as one’s relatives most likely aren’t web professionals and so domains will slip away over time. Makes me really angry, but it’s another thing we should find solutions for on the indie web — how to keep important domains going posthumously.

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Classic Web (@classicweb@indieweb.social)

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I admit, I am fascinated by how X users see the internet. I think some of them genuinely don’t know what websites are.