In one form or another, I’ve been writing on the internet since around
2002, when I set up my first own domain, thefeed.no.
Back then I was running my own Movabletype installation.
Thanks to the glorious Internet Archive you can see my
first blog the way it looked about a year after it’s launch. It is
very strange for me to go back and read the thoughts I had so many years
ago.

I was also hosting other blogs on my movabletype installation, including
slemmen, who wrote about sysadmin stuff and some college friends like
marlboro and gry.

On the front page we had a perl script that aggregated all the blogs,
a simple planet if you will.

Back then, I wrote a lot less about tech than I do now. Looking at the
categories, we see that the three biggest ones are Travel[44], Geek[36]
and Opinion[26]. Still, even then I was journaling things from the
Perl Community. However, checking back around 2005, a few years
later, Geek[108] was dominant, With Opinion[49] and Mac[34] as the next
ones. Perl is trailing 4. with 27 posts. I also wrote 18 book reviews

About that time I gave my first talk about a MVC framework.I was
already active in the community, contributing a Mason view to Maypole,
my third CPAN module. I had been using Mason at work for a couple of years
by then. It was not until I started working for ABC Startsiden that I started
using Template Toolkit.

About then, disaster struck. My server HDD died, losing a lot of images
from our image galleries. After that, I lost a lot of the motivation for
running thefeed, given the risks. Losing people’s personal data isn’t fun.
At least I am glad that the blogs are preserved in the internet archive.

It took a while for me to start writing again after that, but in the period 2006-2009
I decided to use hosted solutions, keeping both a vox blog and a
livejournal, before finally moving to this blog installation.
I’m self-hosted again, and the software might vary, but I hope the addresses
will last for a long time :)