There is a Blaugust Group prompt today entitled "Tell us all about your very first blog", which is what I will be aiming to do in this post. I think I have touched on the subject matter contained within a number of times over the years so if you are already aware, skip ahead to the next post. Blaugust2026 Group Project - tell us about your very first blog Humble Beginnings The year was Nineteen Dickety Eight and my first website like many that were around in the day was on Geocities and later on Tripod. While being your personal slice of the internet or the World Wide Web as it was called back in those days, it wasn't what we would consider now-a-days a (we)blog. It tended to be a knowledge share and elaborate profile page. Version 2 (2000) - First Blog My first efforts to manage my site content beyond that of Geocities started in 2000. It was a static effort that my friends would type up posts and content and I would create the webpages based on that. For me this was the first time what we where writing and publishing could be considered actual long form posts on recurring topics too. In 2002 I started to explore using CGI and Perl to make automated updates for some elements, I use the term "automated” loosely as it was still a very manual heavy approach for the bulk of content most of which was still being handwritten and pushed live with FTP. We kind of had Microblog towards the end of this period as team members could post one liner Status updates. The Third Age (2003) Yes the website version was nicknamed that, and yes it was a Babylon 5 reference. When PHP arrived on the scene (well at my hosting provider) things really took off, I dove into a rewrite of the website and at one stage we had a 3 to 4 people updating different content during a month, it really was a team effort. It was during that time that the blog posts really took off, reviews were always a good favourite and people enjoyed writing them, The main landing page was a mixture of topical posts and throw away statements mostly directed at our group. I was rather lucky as my best friend Dok would create reviews of Album releases, New movies and Video Games at a great pace, which was wonderful content. Additionally among the team was my friend hellboundheart who would create wonderfully detailed and well thought out articles, especially when compared to what I was likely spitting out at the time. Now, she not only runs the very successful Warped Perspective website, but has also written and published a number of books too. I was always in good hands it seems.