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Blogging before 2003

  I been doing a blog for a long time.  In fact I been doing one since 1982!  I know many people say that blogging began in 1995.  They are wrong.  I know they are wrong on that information.
  I could just be the father and inventor of blogging.  Whip that smile off your face buddy!  Smile
  There was a web site that listed the inventor of blogging.  I left a comment on the site and one of the readers of the comment went to ShowMeBlog and checked it out and then he posted a comment that I was not telling the truth because he saw that I started blogging using TypePad in 2003.
  I also had a blog review site do a review of my blog and in the review the guy said that I said I had been online since 1982.  He said the same thing…that I was using TypePad and began blogging in 2003.
  I do not understand how they can not see that I was around and blogging before there was a TypePad, before there was a LiveJournal.  Hell, I was blogging  before there was a world wide web.
  I had to write my own software at first.  I did not use it very long because other people started to write software.

  By the way just before I started using TypePad, 2003, to host my blog I used LiveJournal.  If you want to read my blog before 2003 you will have to go to HowardNet on LiveJournal.  
   I also had a blog on Xanga and it began 12/28/2002.

  I started doing the LiveJournal blog on 06/04/2000.  I made 1,278 post to the site and 242 comments were left on the site.
  The important thing to keep in mind is that I was blogging before there was a TypePad, LiveJournal or even the world wide web.

The SysOp Next Door

Joe Taibi made a comment about your note "BBS: The Documentary Photos":

“I do remember you're doing something very similar and it was for that very reason i contacted you first when looking for people to join us in the Fidonet thing! I was a user of your BBS for some time before jumping in and doing it as well. By some time meaning a few months since we all know how fanatical we all were back then once we got the bug. And damnit I know you were blogging in the early 80's cause that's what Howard's NOTEBOOK was! A blog! Your Blog! But no one had coined that stupid bastardization of phrases yet! lol”

  If it is not in Wikipedia it is not true.  Smile
I use Wikipedia all the time to look up information.  I guess I need to get someone to enter the information into Wikipedia.
  I wish I had saved old messages and data that would be great.  I wish my memory was better.  I wish the guy that made “BBS: The Documentary” would post my two and a half hour interview.  He started posting some of the interviews with people on the Internet archive site but I guess he got tired of doing it.  It has to be a major amount of work because he interviewed over 200 people.
  If you watch his documentary you will see that many of the people he interviewed still had their old computers, BBS software and all sorts of things saved.  I have nothing.
  My mind is a  blank right now but the guy in Belton that was running the FidoNet hub there at the last…He owned a computer shop..I heard he died.  He was a nice guy but I did not hear about his death until later.  I think he was part of the Fido net wars that seemed to go on later.  You started up the Fidonet thing in KC but later toward the end, I think, there was some real fighting going on.  I was not part of it.  I just wanted the feeds and did not get into the fighting. 
  Jason Scott, creator of the documentary, asked me about FidoNet.  He had some stories about it.  It seems the fighting was taking place not just in KC but all over the United States. 
  There was a lot going on that I did not know about…I was sort of in my own little world and that was Howard’s Notebook. 
  Do you remember “The Sysop Next Door” series of stories that was posted on Howard’s Notebook and that many other BBS picked up and re-printed?  You do know who the author was?  After all these years it can be told.

BBS: The Documentary – Part 1 Baud

“The BBS Documentary by Jason Scott Licensed under Creative Commons Description: The BBS documentary part 1 baud [at lower resolution) In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would. Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, "BBS: The Documentary", a mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS, is now available. Spanning 3 DVDs and totalling five and a half hours, this documentary is actually eight documentaries about different aspects of this important story in the annals of computer history. * Baud introduces the story of the beginning of the BBS, including interviews with Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, who used a snowstorm as an inspiration to change the world. Among the features of this documentary: * 5 and a half hours of episodes * Over 80 minutes of bonus footage * Commentary Tracks and Statements by Jason Scott * Easter Eggs * Subtitles on all Episodes and Footage * Region-Free DVDS (Play them anywhere) * No Copy Protection, CSS or Macrovision * Licensed under Creative Commons * DVD-ROM Section with: o Thousands of photos o Additional audio interviews o Speeches by Jason Scott and guests”

  This video is 38 minutes long just so you will know.  It is only part 1 of the documentary.

BBS: The Documentary

   Here is a little ten minute sample of “BBS: The Documentary.”

 

 

A brief collection of clips from one of the best documentaries of geekdom ever made. Purchase the boxed set over at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

BBS: The Documentary Photos

  Jason Scott made “BBS: The Documentary” between July of 2001 to December of 2004.  He filmed it using a Canon XL-1.  He visited 30 states and one Canadian province.  He shot roughly 250 hours of video.  He interviewed 205 people.
  I was one of the people that he interviewed.  He came to Texas and took over 2 hours of video of me.  Of course only a very little of that shows up in the documentary. 
  One day that entire video will be on the Internet so after I am long gone someone can do research and use that interview and they can check and get information from the other entire 204 interviews.
  Jason Scott made a great documentary but he also has saved the history of bulletin board systems and created a great database of information that will be long after we all gone.

  He also took 11 photos when he interviewed me with a digital camera.  I do not think I have ever posted them all.  You may have seen a few of them.  I think it is about time for you to see them all.

 

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The First Blogger by with Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg, author of the new "SAY EVERYTHING", goes on a quest to track down the primal blogger. In SAY EVERYTHING, Rosenberg chronicles bloggings unplanned rise and improbable triumph, tracing its impact on politics, business, the media, and our personal lives.

  Should I tell him who invented blogging? 
No, I do not think he cares.  If you have an idea who invented blogging his blog is:    say everything. 

  I made the following video in August of 2007 and posted it on YouTube at that time.  It tells how I invented the blog and my feeling about who is the father of blogging.

Playing with Howard’s Notebook

  I been playing with Howard’s Notebook.  I went to bed about 0030 hours and woke up at 0300 hours and I am still up at 0545 hours.  I started to work on HNB and I am still up.  An old man like me should be sleeping at night.  Smile
  I put a Google map on the Amateur Radio section of HNB.

  I been playing with it.  If it works out I may put it on a page for for the map and that data. My concern is that the page may load slow with the map on it.
  But it is pretty neat.  I put it on the ham radio page so I can post SkyWarn training, meeting locations, training, testing, hamfest and the field day events. 
  There is SkyWarn training tomorrow.  I bet I am the only ham at the Skywarn training that does not have a radio.  I am not sure if I can afford to order one this month or not.  I will act like I just left my radio at home. Smile

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

  I just watched the launch of the LRO.  It is on the way to the moon and we are all going back to the moon but this time we will stay.

World Events and News and Twitter

  I do not think anyone should get their news from Twitter.  Most of all I do not think that CNN or any news media should report anything that appears on Twitter.
  I use Twitter and you can follow me on Twitter:  n0uwy

  But you never know who someone is on Twitter and you never know if anything they say is the truth.  They may say they are reporting from Iran and they may be sitting in their living room in Kansas City watching TV.

  Twitter is great to keep up to date on when a blog is updated or if a new program is out or what is on TV and things like that …but you should not get “news” from Twitter.

 

What the fuck?

My name is Paul Yoon. I work for PEaCE Lab ( www.foodwebs.org ) and we are
making a new food web video. When we are making new video, we would like to use your
video on youtube as part of our new food web video. So I would like to ask your permission
to use your video on youtube ( Strange Bug: Click Beetle : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXp9JAl7kU )
We made food webs video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNkDnhYbEw&feature=channel_page)
from our application and we won 2nd place winner in the NetSci Visualizing Network Dynamics
Competition (http://www.nd.edu/~netsci/conference.html) .
This time we would like to add more live animal animation.
If you agree usage of your video, please send me your full name, association ( if any ), email address.
We will add your name and assocation at the end of film on credit.
If you have better quality video, we would like to have it.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Paul Yoon