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July 26, 2003
crystallyn.com turns 8 years old
Yep, you read that right. Not as a blog, but as a website, I've had this little puppy for 8 years!!! Seems bizarre to me that it's been that long, but it's true. I bought the domain around the end of July 1995 for a lot of money (I can't remember how much it was at first but it was around $150+ a year or something crazy...the costs have really come down). It has changed a lot over the years, but most dramatically when some guy I knew (who has since stopped blogging), introduced me to the then fledgling Blogger. I finally graduated to MT earlier this year, but although as a blog it's only been around for a little over three years, crystallyn.com is about 56 years old in dog years.
It's amazing how self-publishing has changed the face of the Internet in that short time.
Posted by crystallyn at July 26, 2003 04:40 PM
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Congrats, Crystal! When Sean (of Disserto infamy) showed me your site, that's what got me into blogging in the first place. spite.com had been utterly content free before then. So, in other words, I blame you. ;)
Posted by: Forrest at July 26, 2003 08:10 PM
Happy, happy web-birthday! My first website, "Dido's World" (snicker--I'd translated Book IV of the Aeneid in college Latin class), is looong gone.
Posted by: Sharyl M. at July 26, 2003 09:14 PM
wow.
Posted by: Shanna at July 26, 2003 09:47 PM
Congratulations! I've only owned my domain for about three and a half years, so you're far ahead of me.
Posted by: ancarett at July 27, 2003 08:43 AM
Ooo you took Latin...I wish I could have!
Posted by: crystal at July 27, 2003 09:33 AM
I must have filed everything I learned under my short-term memory, because I can remember very little of it. Seriously, I'd need to start completely over. I sure couldn't translate the Gutenberg Bible.
Posted by: Sharyl M. at July 27, 2003 09:52 AM
Congrats on the website anniversary!
I'm hoping to start a similar webpage/blog once I'm up in Alaska. That way my family and friends back home can keep up with my life a bit. Just waiting for the Visa application to be approved!
Posted by: Legenae at July 27, 2003 11:51 AM
hey congrats sweetie!!! thats quite an accomplishment!
Posted by: sean at July 27, 2003 04:12 PM
Hey Legenae, stop by my site and catch me up on your life. You still in the Big Nickel?
/end threadjack
Posted by: ancarett at July 27, 2003 05:43 PM
Wow, hey, congratulations!
I recently gave up a domain I'd had for a long time. Since 1995, I think. You're right, it was expensive back then! It was time for the domain to go. Now I'm down to just 2. :)
Posted by: Sean at July 28, 2003 11:10 AM
Some guy congratulates you!
Posted by: Scott at August 19, 2003 12:10 AM