…to speak about bringing this blog to an end.
The world has become just too mean-spirited from where I sit, and I've become too grumpy as a result, to take much pleasure in blogging about it.
I've been reading newspapers for 80 years. And I've been blogging about the news since before the word blog was invented. It began on a domain long abandoned named tedsnet, and here's the earliest remnant of that blog that remains on the Wayback Machine. It was posted in 1998, and sites like that were called Weblogs then: in a pre-Google age, denizens of the network (Netizens) would log their travels through the wires (it was also the dial-up era) to help other adventurers find their way. Blog is a contraction of Weblog and, according to Merriam-Webster, first appeared in 1999.
After I dropped the tedsnet domain to save a little money I took up blogging again — this blog, here on Blogger, in 2005. In the 20 years since it's amassed more than 1.66 million hits. In recent years most of them, according to Google, have come from outside the U.S.
It's been fun. But now I'm ready for something new. Like reading more books, maybe, Or watching TV.
Or taking longer naps.
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2 comments:
I hate to see it go as reading it is part of my daily routine and serves as an additional connection with you. I can only pray that you will use all of your extra time to write your memoirs. 76003 has been the premier source of inspiration for procrastination, and the ultimate waste of time (and I mean that as a compliment). Congratulations on your retirement. The entire staff is at a loss.
ditto from the rest of the SoCal staff. How are we to avoid work now?
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