I bought my first computer around 1983, but had been using computers at work for a couple of years before that, and I've been online since 1994, when the only way to use a modem outside of a university in my town (and I wasn't in university) was to directly dial someone's computer who was running a Bulletin Board System (BBS)!

So, while I was spending my usual every waking hour on the Internet in 1998 or maybe 1999, did I find out about Google (which was still Beta, but already big) by reading about it on the web? No, a lecturer at university mentioned it (in a real, in-person, physical lecture)!

Now, I used to have up to fifty domains registered, about nine years ago. I've let nearly all of them expire, only ever having managed to sell one of them, and I never could be bothered updating them. Even the updates I did in 1998 and 1999/2000, (admittedly while very busy doing a university course while also trying to work) were pretty much just adding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to them so that I could change the appearance of all pages without bothering to edit more than a single file! In the beginning I used to hand code the HTML and upload (by FTP) to a server that I paid money for! Now blogging has become a big thing and I've never got interested in it, because I'd said nearly everything I had needed to say by about 1998! By then I had hundred of pages with sermon audio and downloadable Bibles and a political discussion forum and even pages about Esperanto, all of which generated thousands and thousands of hits per month, year after year, but I had gotten burned out, I couldn't even be bothered looking at the stat's, let alone writing new content. I don't visit MySpace or Facebook or other bloated websites.  

So, tonight I'm reading an e-mail forwarded from the coolest guy I know, djp, so I decide to check out some of his photo blogging websites, and he mentions becoming more and more impressed with Posterous. Hey, I haven't heard of that before! He provided his link, www.djpaine.posterous.com, which landed on one of his new photo blog domains djp4.net, which he said also includes his twitter feed. Another Twitter user. Well, I had to dig a bit further, and going to www.posterous.com I found out all about it, and the rest is [<strike>history</strike> | future ] . --> (Mental) wheels are turning, but now, it's getting late.