Ten Years For Dave, Five Years For Us

Clive Davis writes:

Until I dropped into Jackie Danicki’s, I wasn’t even aware that Web pioneer Dave Winer had just celebrated his tenth anniversary. This is what “the longest continuing running weblog on the Internet” looked like, more or less, in April 1997.

It’s sort of along the lines of James Lileks’ early Bleats in terms of first generation home-rolled HTML craftsmanship, though much more link-oriented than longform prose.

And incidentally, we celebrated five years worth of blatherifics ourselves last month. Here are some overly exuberant thoughts on the subject a few anniversaries ago.

Update: “The site sure was ugly back then. I think we’ve grown up a lot in ten years”. Courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, here’s what TownHall.com looked like a decade ago in version 1.0 mode.