The untitled weblog
I started this weblog back in June of 1998. It didn’t last very long, mainly because it was so much work to create a post. And there weren’t very many other weblogs to crib links off of (I can only think of three), so it was kind of hard to find new stuff. It was actually called “The untitled weblog” and I had this text at the top of the page: “Well, I wanted to start a weblog in the tradition of Jorn Barger and the Honeyguide Weblog, so I finally got around to it.”
Notice how I linked things back then: a little comment, followed by the link, followed by a blockquote excerpt. The text of the link is the URL itself, unless it was unacceptably messy, in which case I’d just make the link text say “[Messy URL]“. (It took me years to accept that any other format of linking things was valid or “right.”) I didn’t have post titles, so the post titles I’m creating in WordPress are usually just the first sentence or few words of my original post.
I will try to find working links to the URLs referenced in the posts, but I may not be able to. Sometimes the original link won’t work, but I can find the page or AP story archived somewhere else. So links that you follow may not be exactly the same original URLs that I linked to, but it’s still the same stuff.