My blogging history

I've been writing online in some form now for almost 30 years (how is 1998 almost 30 years ago?), but I didn't start officially blogging until the beginning of the year 2000. Prior to 2000 I kept an online journal (I online journaled before LiveJournal made it cool), first constructed with hand coded HTML for every single page, then I used a CGI script a friend found online to render text files…