Journalversary!

[discountsatori]

Today we're celebrating the JOURNALVERSARY. Yes, folks, it's been ten years since a wee 17-year-old Laurie crawled onto the Internet and began documenting her life on black backgrounds with white text and creepy red links. A toast to you, 17-year-old self. Let's see what she had to say ten years ago tonight:

The Imperfect First Entry
October 27,

Comments

[imperfectmap]

So I love that I remember reading this entry perhaps nine years ago when I first found you. Ridiculous. You know what's also ridiculous? The fact that you should really be at AWP in February. Mhm.

[cooljwn]

awesome! I remember starting a journal on my own UGA "arches" website, before realizing there were new websites starting up to support the idea of "blogging". I moved all of those old entries to livejournal. An angelfire 'mirror' of my old website is still up I think.

And for some reason, when I think about the internet in 1997, this guy comes to mind:

[mesawyou]

Oh wow. Happy Anniversary. or something.

[greencow]

i love your icon!

[mesawyou]

Thanks.

[greencow]

whoa 10 years!

what's said is i've been online since 91... *sigh* and i remember when the internet didn't exist.

[anerise]

eep! has it really been that long? I started reading your journal in 1998 I think...it was before you graduated high school, anyway. I remember admiring you from afar and thinking you were so cool, haha (I still think you're pretty awesome now, actually!) You're one of the only people I keep up with from back then...I've always been a fan of your writing.

Happy journalversary ;)

[discountsatori]

Thank you! I didn't realize you had been reading for -- gasp -- nine years! Awesome.