For years and years, my blog here on scottsevener.com was a mirror image of the blogging that I started over at LiveJournal – at least from 2003 – 2011, anyways, until I moved over here and stopped blogging over there. But still, 14 years of blogging always seemed like an impressive archive of the non-formatted writing that I’ve done over the years…
…until now!
Because do you want to know what’s even more impressive than 14 years of blogging?
How about 15 years of blogging?!?!?!
After I wrote my post last week reminiscing about my first adventures of Internetting a la Grex, I got to thinking that even though I technically started blogging on LiveJournal in the spring of 2003 … there was actually some “blogging” that I also did on comedic-genius.com way back when that was the only domain I had other than Just Laugh!
Thankfully I’m a bit of a digital packrat, so I was able to find the old PHP files that made up the original comedic-genius.com that served as the same sort of hub site for my online work that this one does now. But it was sooooo much more grueling because long before the days of adopting WordPress, I created my sites the hard way by coding directly in Notepad – a combination of HTML and PHP in all, with every formatting tag and line break typed by hand instead of this fancy WYSIWYG-editor that is a staple in every major CMS today! 😯
From what I can tell, I did use some sort of blogging software called Fusion PHP … according to the comment tags, anyways … but it was barely a CMS in that I still typed everything by hand and posts were just stored one after another in PHP files as they appeared on the page.
So anyways – I just finished copying the last of 23 new blog posts from 2002 into this site because, err, why not?!
- 7/1/2002 – Bob and Tom – You Guys Rock!
- 7/8/2002 – Heat wave…
- 7/9/2002 – 2002 Cartoonist’s Choice Awards
- 7/12/2002 – A Sad Day Under the Sea…
- 7/18/2002 – chicks that rock…
- 7/22/2002 – Coming Soon – this site may actually go online!!!
- 7/23/2002 – good news on the horizon…
- 7/26/2002 – Hooray for me…it’s about time!
- 7/26/2002 – Humor Columnist Survivor!!!
- 8/2/2002 – A new column, and an explanation…
- 8/14/2002 – Ok, I give up…Bill Gates now owns me, too… / The Return of the Cola Wars…
- 8/21/2002 – Who’s on the ball now???
- 9/1/2002 – Civil Rights Gone Too Far – “The Right to Plagiarize…”
- 9/20/2002 – Overdue updates!
- 9/24/2002 – 2nd Annual Just Laugh Weenie Awards
- 10/25/2002 – Remember Me?
- 11/9/2002 – Check it out…
- 11/25/2002 – A multitude of updates…
- 11/25/2002 – Another link to post – “Laughing is GOOD for you!”
- 12/1/2002 – Oh, the weather outside is frightful…
- 12/16/2002 – Sleigh bells ring…hey, are you even listening?!
- 12/21/2002 – The Tribe Has Spoken…
- 12/26/2002 – Kids will be kids…
I can’t really vouch for their readability or entertainment value … they’re mostly a mixture of updates about whatever columns I had just finished writing and random life happenings … so I’ll leave that up to you to judge the worth of a 22-year-old’s late night ramblings! 😛
Still, you know me – I think it’s neat to have this kind of stuff to look back at from time to time over the years, and so here are another 11,000 words to add to the pile when reflection time is upon me once again.
By the way – just for reference, I tried to update links wherever I could because all of the humor columns are still available today as well as some of the Just Laugh features, but others never/haven’t yet made it into the latest version so don’t be surprised if a few links here and there appear to be dead-ends.
For what it’s worth, I still think my linking history success rate is probably considerably better than most sites linking back to content from fifteen years ago! 😀