20 years ago tomorrow, on March 17, 2004, I published my first blog post. Or least, it’s the oldest that I can find. WordPress was less than a year old, and my first post regarding WordPress came just a few weeks later.
I’ve been hit or miss over the years. There were some very slow years (I only published four times in 2014) and some big bumps.
The last three years have been quite solid, with just two exceptions:
- 2023 had 366 posts instead of 365, because I published a second post on March 21 when Google released Bard.
- 2022 only had 358 posts, because I took a week off with COVID.
With over 1,700 posts on here, I certainly consider it to be a good use of my time, which I explained a bit more in-depth a few years ago.
The future is hard to see, but I have two predictions for the next 20 years:
- God-willing, this blog will still be around 20 years later.
- I almost certainly won’t be blogging every day at that point. I have no plans to quit anytime soon, but that would be a bit over 7,300 more posts, so I have to think it’s fairly unlikely. We’ll see!
If you have a blog, how far back can you trace your oldest post?
I hope you’ll continue nearly-daily posts. I appreciate the inspiration!
July 31, 2005 was my start. My silly starting post, https://tonydye.typepad.com/main/2005/07/about_time.html. I’ve been nowhere near as productive as you.
I love that you’re able to go back so far. You can write a 20th anniversary post next year!