In noting the end of Evaporation, Linda at wordfetish [July 8 you are getting sleeeepy] reminisced about the beginnings of her association with others like us:
As some of you know, X-number of years ago blogs did not exist. Instead, the personal-expression site format of choice was something that came to be known as the 'online journal.' [long humorous parenthetical interlude deleted.]Just as I suspected, people seem to never really change their ways, there are only just more people becoming involved as time goes on.I know it's hard to fathom now, the web having grown exponentially** in a relatively few years, but at the time there were few enough people similarly engaged that pretty much the whole scene could be fairly easily observed, assessed, and prioritized accordingly. It wasn't like it is now, with a gazillion blogs, many of which seem to exist only in order to echo each other's mediocrity. Nope, there were only a hundred or so online journals, many of which seemed to exist only in order to echo each other's mediocrity. [emphasis supplied]
*BB: Before Blogging
Posted by Tiger at July 17, 2003 03:14 PM