Matt Webb reflecting on 25 years of blogging. On the very early days of blogging:

So I would post 4 or 6 times a day, like most people. Just a line with a shower thought, or a link and a comment, or a response to someone else

I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.

Rob Fahrni

Wow, I didn’t even think to celebrate it but February 2 was 24-years for me. www.crabapples.net/rob/archi…

Manton, can I import all of those posts from Blogger into MB?

Patrick Rhone

Yep. Kottke was like this back in the day. That’s the style I learned and emulated and to a large extent still continue to this day.

Manton Reece

@patrickrhone Kottke is another good example. Some blogging tools didn’t even have a separate title field back in the day.

Manton Reece

@fahrni Congrats! I’d love to add Blogger support. I looked at it briefly a while ago. Can you email me a copy of your Blogger export? I need some good examples to support it well.

Patrick Rhone

Some of us (Kottke included) hand coded it all. :-)

Manton Reece

@patrickrhone Good times. 🙂 My first experiment with a blog was hand coded, but by the time I got around to officially starting my personal blog the tools were getting pretty good.

Brad Enslen

I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.

This was my own experience back in the old days of blogging. All pre-Twitter, I felt guilty about my many microposts because I felt somehow all blog posts had to be a brilliant essay. Many years later that was one of the main reasons I tried Micro.blog, because MB worked so well with both long form and micro posts and those micro posts were okay.

Manton Reece @manton
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