A Long Time Ago, in a Blogosphere Far, Far Away

@instapundit Blog map I created 6/3/02. Want to see if anyone knows of any earlier; I think 1st of its kind. RT? pic.twitter.com/xh1g3QPOJx

— Rob Neppell (@rneppell) April 17, 2014

I never posted anything to mark the 12th anniversary of my blog last month, but this Tweet by Rob Nebbell, aka N.Z. Bear, found by Moe Green, sure brings back memories. I’m there at about nine o’clock on the above chart. As for how I made it into the Blogosphere, well, an article I wrote on the nascent Blogosphere, based on interviews with a few of the same folks in the above chart — and written almost the same time as  Rob’s was crafting it — has you covered.

And while my blog is positively paleolithic, if you really want to feel old, just watch:

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As I posted in the comments at Ricochet in response to the above video, if you really want to blow the minds of these impressionable tykes, hand ’em a 12-inch laser disc.