Every year on the 14th January, I mark the anniversary of my first blog post from 2002. Which is today, and so it’s been 24 years since I started blogging.
That being said, I took a four year gap between 2018 and 2022, so you could argue that I’ve ‘only’ been blogging for 20 years. Still, that’s a long time, and way more than half of my life.
Since 2002, I’ve sat my A-level exams, started and finished university, moved out of my parents’ house, got married, passed my driving test, bought a house, started a family and settled into a career. The me that started this blog aged 17 is very different to the 41 year old me that writes this nowadays.
And yet, some things haven’t changed much. The blog has always been hosted on web sites running the Apache HTTP Server on Linux, for example. The tools have changed, but not much – first Blogger for a few months, then Movable Type and more recently WordPress. Data has been stored in either a MySQL or MariaDB database for over 20 years.
I no longer publish multiple blog posts per day – Twitter, and later Bluesky fill this role now. Instead, I aim to publish a new blog post every other day but most blog posts are written at least a few days in advance and usually in bulk. Back in 2002, scheduling posts wasn’t really a thing – you just wrote some words down and published them. Also, this was before web browsers routinely included spellcheckers.
I’m not planning to quit blogging any time soon, so, fingers crossed, I’ll be able to post about the big 25 next January. If you fancy it, here are links to previous blogiversary posts from 2025, 2024, 2023, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2007, 2006, 2004 and 2003.
