Happy Blogiversary to Me, 25 Years!

2026-08-06T03:45:00-04:00

August 06, 2026
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#blogging #personal

A watercolor painting of a middle-aged man with short brown hair and glasses, wearing a blue button-up shirt, sitting at a desk with a thoughtful, content expression. In front of him is a round birthday cake decorated with blue and gold icing, topped with star-shaped candles in gold and blue. The desk also holds a blue coffee mug and some papers. Behind the man is a computer monitor displaying a landscape painting with trees and a river. The background is festive with colorful balloons in gold, purple, and blue, as well as hanging triangular pennant banners and confetti scattered around, suggesting a birthday celebration. The setting appears to be a bright, cheerful room with natural light coming through a window.

Celebrating 25 years of blogging with gratitude, reflection, and a sweet slice of success surrounded by creativity and joy.

August 6, 2001, 25 years ago. I started blogging. I had a website made by Microsoft FrontPage and hosted on GTE (now Verizon) in the homepages they offered back in those days for residential customers. In fact, your ISP provided everything for you. You had so much website space and an ISP-provided email, which you lost if you changed providers. That's foreign today.

But I started on Blogger before it was owned by Google on this date in 2001. Hard to believe it's been 25 years since I started blogging. Here is my first post ever. It's even harder to imagine I've been doing this for that long. I think blogging helps me get stuff off my chest, though very, very few people read it. I like to vent, review, or just get my thoughts down about different subjects. I like to think not only have my website and my blogging improved, but my knowledge has improved. Here's to 70 more years of blogging. I hope to be blogging and to have a website of some kind, no matter how they may change in the future. So Happy Blogiversary to me.