Last night I was playing a card game called Anomia and the cards have categories on them like 'recyclable material' or 'bird sound' or 'south american country' and you have to try to say something in that category as fast as you can. There's other rules too but that's the gist of it.
And one of the cards said 'blog' and someone said, 'who has a blog????' and I said, 'I have a blog.' And then there was kind of a reaction of like 'you have a blog?'
And then I did what I usually do when this happens which is trying to remember how old the blog is and I said twenty years but I think it's only 18 or so.
This morning I was trying to scroll my comments page to see how old my oldest comment is and I got distracted because I could still see the profiles of people in high school who also had blogs and some of them are still up! Frozen in time.
I started reading one and I remembered there was this kind of post or format floating around of like dozens of questions. Like they were just questions and you would answer them and post it.
Here's an excerpt:
What are you doing right now? Listening to music and waiting for my laundry to be done.
What time did you wake up this morning? Like 10 something.
When was the last time you cried really hard? Last night.
Have you held hands with somebody in the past three days? Yea.
If the year consisted of only one season, which would you choose? Probably summer.
What was the last thing you drank? Water and lots of it.
Do you believe that there's good in everybody? Yes.
Is confidence cute? Umm I wouldn't say so.
Where is your father? Probably at home.
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I did a count and there were about a hundred questions. But these were common. I have clear memories of encountering these.
And so I ask my only active commenter, Crab, do YOU remember these? Are they still a thing? What happened to these? Do they signify anything?
3 comments:
Millenial Crab, here - I DO REMEMBER these!! Except I think I mainly saw them as myspace or facebook posts but functionally they served the exact same purpose. I never had a blog but the idea OF having a blog in the myspace/facebook era seems kinda rebellious and cool now. Like knowing that those others were the mainstream options and some people chose 'nah, you gotta come to MY website if you want MY stream of consciousness thoughts. You can't just receive my thoughts without trying. You gotta subscribe to them.' That's pretty cool.
Side note because I'm kind of doing it right now and on accident, I've recently thought about the idea of making my own blog posts here in the comments. Not my own blog. Definitely not my own blog. Just monologuing and free wheeling it here. In these comments. Like I'm one of those lil sucker fish guys on the belly of a shark, just grabbing on to you and going 'yeah im here too. im a part of this. what spot you need cleaned next, boss??' is kinda neat too. I never had a blog and why start now. BUT COMMENT BLOG??? That's a new frontier. I could break ground on that. get it started. I could be a blog henchman.
Lets give it a start:
Are they still a thing?
-no, they only live as monuments to a bygone era, before twitter but after the birth of social media/networking, when we still believed that the unfettered access to moment-to-moment thoughts of any and everyone was novel and could be a benefit to society rather than its ultimate downfall. It used to be 'here are fun things that your friends are thinking about!' and you could participate in it. Now it's 'here are the probably unfun things someone you DONT KNOW is thinking about, you should also probably think about them a lot or you are a bad person. also that one guy in the comments seems like they disagree and are rude about it, better internalize a lot of hatred about them and wish violence and misfortune to befall them'. The former still seems kinda nice, the latter seems... less so.
What happened to these?
-I think I got ahead of myself and really trampled over this question in the previous answer. rip question.
Do they signify anything?
-welp...
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probably needs some work, but I feel like it's still got some promising results...
Oh yeah. This is a great development. I'm like a pioneer species of plant that has set up shop on a barren rock face and that can support additional cooler life on top of it.
I really liked your analysis of where we were vs where we are. It's almost as if groups of people can find ways to get along and meet their needs while respecting one another but when an incredibly small group of people try to extract profit from that without regard for well-being then it gets bad.
Another relevant biology/botany term for a comment blog is 'epiphyte'.
We could call my little symbiotic comments and thoughts 'epiphynies'. Does that translate over text as well as it would(nt?) phonetically?? I think it seems pretty wicked smaht. But also I wouldna got there if it werent for your healthy plant stalk. It's all working as intended!!
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