In 20 Years, How Cool Will This Thing Be
I tried my hand at blogging roughly 20 years ago. There’s an old Wordpress site around on the web somewhere with my words on it. I remember looking back at it at once point and realized just how bad my writing was at that point of my life. It’s for that reason I never imported any of that content here.
This interaction of my website has been active since about mid-2018. There’s a few instagram posts I imported which predate this point. But, for all intents and purposes I’ve been sourcing content from this website then. This began my gateway drug to walking away from social media, or, at least from posting all my life on there. Now, about six years of my life has been posted here.
I just saw a fellow blogger celebrate 20 years of blogging. I envy people who’ve had blogs this long. To be able to dig around and see what you thought at a particular point about something would be cool. I’d love to see my written thoughts on the original iPhone, for example. I also congratulate people who’ve kept blogs this long or longer. To be able to withstand the pull of social media through this time and still keep an active blogging presence is impressive.
As I hit the six year mark, I also think that’s impressive. I have quite a bit to look back on in that time. But, I can only imagine how freaking cool this little time capsule will be in 14 years when I hit the 20 year mark. To be in my late 50s and to be able to look back on what my late 30’s self was thinking will be interesting. I think many of us still expect Twitter in inevitably fail. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook one day was also erased. I honestly don’t expect these websites to stay up forever. But, personal websites, because of the open web principles they are built on, have every opportunity to live on. I may change domains or change the service in which I use to post over time. But, you still should be able to read my words from 15 years ago when that day comes. That’s just one of the many motivators for me to keep posting here.
