Introduction

I remember while going to school at UCSB I came across DIY websites. Blogging was introducing to me in 1999 with www.homestead.com. They had a great tool for beginners to customize a site with web logs and photos. You could have a site called homestead.mysite.com. All the options on the page were customizable just like an adobe photoshop file. However, the downfall was that you had to create and edit each page.

Coding

Then I found some serious bloggers like Crooked-Halo.org which is no longer running. However I realized that these hardcore bloggers were doing straight up coding. I was quite shocked at the point that they learned all this html coding just to do a web log. These sites were all personal blogs. After a year of trying to code, I gave up. I grew up with a business mind, and I didn’t have the time to learn all the code.

Xanga

Then along came the simplicity of Xanga. I soon hopped on to this new format of templates. It was great way to actually have a blog site that others could easily make connections with each other. There is also blogspot, however I never actually used blogspot. Xanga was great because the idea of the personal blogger came to life.

Friendster and Myspace

The friendster and Myspace era killed all content. Now it was not about writing beneficial information. It was about making connections and marketing for the sake of marketing. Which was a genius idea to stay connected.

Wordpress

After reading clothing blogs like hypebeast and highsnobiety, I knew that blogging had created a quantum leap. If you could grab hold of a niche market you were in with the masses. I came across Wordpress in 2007, as a later bloomer in the game, I am here to push blogging to the next level with the this movie. I hope the this movie will grab the attention of potential bloggers who have no yet seen the simplicity of a medium that can give voice to anyone who has the time and drive.

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