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I started Notes in the Margin in 1996. In those heady first days of the World Wide Web, the concept of blogging did not yet exist. What my contemporaries and I were doing then was simply called “having a Web site.” Since then, Web has lost its capitalization, and website has become a single word. And blogs, shortened from Weblogs, have become ubiquitous.
Much has changed over the last almost 30 years. As blogging programs and platforms came and went, frequently replaced by new, shinier products, I lost a lot of my earliest content in the repeated turnovers. The evolution from websites into blogs dramatically changed how content is structured and presented. I recently started looking over my early content with an eye toward sprucing up the blog. I discovered that I no longer have much consistent content until about 2010.
To see how “having a Web site” has developed over the years, I offer a new occasional feature, 15 Years Ago on Notes in the Margin.
A look back at the archives reveals that I didn’t publish much content during June 2010. That doesn’t surprise me, since I was concentrating on finishing my dissertation so that I could graduate the following summer.
Here’s the single substantive piece for that month, from June 5, 2010:
The Psychology of Reading: A Select Bibliography
Although I had a lot to say about the entry featured in my introductory post, I have almost nothing more to offer about this one. It obviously demonstrates an academic focus, which I would later work on toning down. At least I didn’t have to worry about updating no-long-functioning links in this post, since there aren’t any links here.
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