21 years ago today, my first blog post. A bunch of promising social networks have come and gone in that time. Often feels like very little is permanent, so make sure to have your own space on the web.

John Brayton

Your blog is old enough to drink! More seriously, I notice that there are no huge time gaps in your archive. Your consistency is impressive.

Pratik

Wow! Quite a milestone. But at the same time, you have been blogging only one year more than I have? And you already have built a (successful) blogging platform!

Colin Devroe

👏👏

Jatan

@pratik Wonder if building a blogging platform counts as having blogged as many times as the number of users you enable? Counting quality too, of course.

Rob Fahrni

Congratulations! I hadn’t thought about it but my blog just passed the 22 year mark. It’s spread out over two domains but I count them as one.

Colin Walker

Congrats Manton. A wonderful achievement 👏👏

Numeric Citizen

Wow, that is a long time...

Pratik

@moonmehta Now you are just making me feel more insignificant 🙃

Leon Mika

An incredible achievement. Congratulations. 🍻

Barry Hess

Excellent. It seems most first blog posts have a similar flavor. lol bjhess.com/blog/2004...

Manton Reece

@bjhess Haha, very similar. I laugh whenever I re-read my old post.

Jonathan LaCour

you beat me by a few months! My first post - cleverdevil.io/archive/2...

Pratik

@cleverdevil so do you still “rarely have an internet connection” and when you do, it is “very very briefly”? ☺️

Jonathan LaCour

@pratik haha it was a different time 😅

Manton Reece

@cleverdevil Movable Type! Good times.

David Johnson

Congratulations on the milestone.

Halsted M. Bernard

Congrats, Manton! 🎉 What a wonderful milestone. I'm excited to celebrate my 25th this May.

Manton Reece

@cygnoir Wow, congrats!

Juha Liikala

That's a while ago! I recall writing my first post back in 2004. Warm memories from those early days of blogging :)

Rene van Belzen

Your podcasting prowess is equally great, May 29 this year will be 15 years of the coreint podcast. So many tech podcasts have come and gone (on permanent hiatus) in the meanwhile.

Manton Reece

@renevanbelzen @danielpunkass Thanks! I didn't realize we were coming up on 15 years for Core Int... We'll have to celebrate.

Halsted M. Bernard

Thank you for the congrats, and for creating Micro.blog. I’m so happy that Micro.blog has been a part of my website’s long history. ☺️

Manton Reece @manton
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