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Rudolf Ammann went to the trouble to figure out that April 1, 1997 is not actually the day a blog first appeared on the home page of scripting.com. ![permalink](http://scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
As he says, the real beginning of Scripting News is on February 19 of that year. And if you want to really have fun with it, Scripting News began a year before that with Frontier News (which I restarted earlier this year, 2010). ![permalink](http://scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
If you really want to mess with your mind, you'd have to go back to October 7, 1994 -- the day I started writing on the net -- when DaveNet started because that's also the beginning of Scripting News. The archive of that site was reverse chronologic, and in every way that matters, was a blog. When Scripting News got started, DaveNet were the long form pieces, otherwise my idea of a blog was a collection of short snips with a link, very much like what we do on Twitter today. DaveNet was more like what we think of as a blog. ![permalink](http://scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
I choose April 1 as the beginning of Scripting News because that's the day the archive begins. ![permalink](http://scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
Anyway... ![permalink](http://scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
13 years! That's a lot of bloggin.
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