I've been blogging for ten years.
You remember ten years ago, right? Faded celebrities sat around in jungles, UKIP made significant electoral gains and some loons re-released the Band Aid song. Seems so alien now.
This blog reached its zenith in 2009 and 2010. Before and since, it has just been a fat man shouting down an internet tube at his own knees.
Here are my eight blogging highlights since the first post dripped out onto the web on 13th November 2004.
1. Getting the word electrostepgrungebass accepted into Blogger's spelling dictionary. Turns out if you post them enough nail clippings, they relent.
2. Actually moving into a grandma's basement so I felt included in all the tabloid comment pieces about blogging. She never found out.
3. The time when I was outed as Burial. Or that graffiti guy. I forget which.
4. Changing the name of my blog to (a) Fat Roland's Internet Sickhole, (b) Fat Roland's Cranial Discharge, (c) Vice Magazine. All at once.
5. Seeing my blog open on a laptop screen in the background of the Queen's official portrait. Still, it put paid to my theory that I can't be seen in paintings, like vampires.
6. Being the millionth visitor to the world wide web. I won a timeshare. Or a large bank deposit. Or willy pills. I don't know: I didn't click.
7. Inventing the "minternet". This is like the internet, only mintier. See also: cheesels (edible easels), hot dogdogs (actual dogs made from sausages), beef (this is just beef that I pretended to invent).
8. Accidentally downloading all the music. Well, almost all. Strangely, it left off all the U2 albums.
9. There isn't a 9. I said "eight blogging highlights". Scroll up. It's right there.
10. Seriously now.
11. OH COME ON.
Thanks for reading. I've had a decade offloading my mind-crap into your face. I think I will carry on because, why not. Blogging is dead and this is not Buzzclick-Viralworthy, but if you stick around, I'll keep tapping away. Here's to Band Aid 2024. *weeps*
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