I Wanted to Blog Before I Knew What Blogging Was
Back sometime in 2000 — I don’t really remember when exactly — I wanted to blog. But I didn’t know what blogging was then.
You see, having recently purchased a Palm m100, I wanted to something fun and somewhat nerdy. Of course, back then, wireless on Palm Pilots were far beyond my reach. But that didn’t stop me from doing things using AvantGo and syncing.
What I wanted to do was at various points in the day write bits and pieces about what was happening on my Palm. I would also have some sort of a point-system for mood or something or another like that. I would submit it via the “web” in AvantGo, and upon the next synchronisation with my deskotp, the conduit would post it to a web server and it would all become catalogued on my web site. It would have become some sort of mood journal with bits about my day and such, as they were happening (though my comments didn’t get published until slightly later).
Unfortunately I never bothered to finish implementing it. I’m sure provincials and other such things got in the way to some extent. But that’s the way it goes.
But in any case — I claim this was a blog, of sorts, conceived by my creative nerdyness without knowing that it was already starting to catch on.
