blingIt’s hard to believe that I’ve been actively blogging for thirteen years now. And yet here we are. I wonder how many people remember that this site was originally called “bling”? That was short for “rambling”, which is what I felt like I always did here. Thirteen years is a long time to be rambling on the Internet.

Does anyone remember the banner that Bryan made for me? (Does anyone remember altruistically / comically making banners for other websites? Remember #blogIRC?)

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Just for reference:

  • I started blogging here in March of 2000.
  • Wikipedia and iTunes were both launched in January of 2001.
  • WordPress was launched in May of 2003.
  • Facebook was launched in February of 2004.
  • Twitter was launched in March of 2006.
  • The first iPhone was released in June of 2007.

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  1. I remember! By the way, what can you tell me about dolphin sex?

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