Last week this site quietly celebrated its 10th anniversary. My first post here was on July 19, 2001. I was living in San Diego at the time and I remember jumping on the iWalt blogging bandwagon. Walt and I shared and office, and I thought “what the heck?” and gave it a whirl. Here I am 10 years later.
I didn’t really do much to celebrate, but I did visit the Wayback Machine. This is a tool that lets you see snapshots of any website from various places in time. Like last year, as I browsed through the history of rachelleb.com, I reminisced about how in the lifetime of this blog I have changed jobs 5 times, moved to New York, moved to Chicago, co-founded Chicagoist, made friends, made more new friends, lost track of friends, met Dallas, got engaged, bought a condo, got married, and on and on. Pretty nutso!
I took a few random screengrabs of this site while I was at the Wayback Machine. Click for larger screenshots.
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10 years! Old school blogger.
Happy Anniversary! By the way, I just bought “Before I Go to Sleep” from Borders today, based on your blog recommendation. So far, I am enjoying it!
Thanks! Let me know how you like the book!
I was thinking about this today and the first screenshot (2001) might actually be older than that. I don’t see any blog element to it, really. There is an updated status (I’d been camping a lot), but not blog, really. So it might have been a previous personal website… which I’d had since 1998? I remember my first one was a senior portrait photo of me with like 5 links under it. Awesome web site! Also, the 2001 era blog was hosted at geocities. I can’t seem to find an example of it.
Congratulations! I’ve been using your site as an example of what a blog should be in class for almost as long. 🙂
happy anniversary!
Congrats ! 10 years ! Wow ! Love it!
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Happy Anniversary! I actually found your site several years ago while searching for a recipe and have been reading since.