‘The Internet used to be Fun’ by Rachel J. Kwon

“The Internet Used to be Fun” has a good selection of posts, from a wide variety of bloggers, who talk about how the web, and the internet, has changed with respects to personal blogging, general web interactions etc, over the years:

Rachel:

I’ve been meaning to write some kind of Important Thinkpiece™ on the glory days of the early internet, but every time I sit down to do it, I find another, better piece that someone else has already written.

So for now, here’s a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.” — Updated, 27 May 2024

⇲ Source: projects.kwon.nyc/internet-…

Lots of references to the Indieweb, Cosyweb and how there’s been a shift back to personal blogging and trying to reengage the more personal, easy going and exciting formats of years gone by.

I’m an OG blogger, cutting my teeth with: dial-up modem, ICQ, web chatrooms and just finding the vastness and randomness of the internet just absolutely mind blowing, and super exciting.

Then I started blogging on Typepad, before moving to Wordpress for my Logo Design Portfolio and Blog, which itself has been around for well over a decade.

Amazingly my Typepad blog is still online; I mostly used it as an online journal about my early challenges with mental health, but it’s a real throwback to when you actually engaged with so many people via the comments, blogrolls etc.

I do miss those years, and now actively shifting from the big closed walls of certain ‘social’ platforms, to the more cosy environment of the Smallweb/Indieweb etc.

Hence in part signing up with micro.blog, and more engaged with the smaller social networks.

Starting to find my passion for blogging all over again.