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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “Necroposting - blogging from before you started blogging”

Jon Hicks has a lovely blog post about his site's design. In it, he briefly touches on something I find interesting: Blogging like it's 1972 I also finally realised that there's nothing stopping me from adding journal posts dated from before I started blogging. So I'm going to start adding key life…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/necro

shkspr.mobiNecroposting – blogging from before you started blogging – Terence Eden’s Blog

@Edent been there, done that :P

…especially because I had no CMS before 2004 and I also had to syndicate some old posts back from silos that no longer exist.

@Edent I still can't get behind the phrase ‘Necroposts’ though. Too much like I've already died and blogging from the beyond. Did you ‘workshop’ any alternatives?

@jonhicks
I thought about retroposts.

But I like the idea of bringing my *writing* back from the dead.

@jonhicks @Edent I mean, they ought to be called "anteposts", but I fear this is not as funny as I think it is :)

@jonhicks @Edent I’ve been dating mine as whatever-date from back then and tagging as #retro. But then, I’m still building mine whereas yours are both alive and kicking, so the back-dating thing would mess up the current flow for you. Go full sepia theme on them, Jon.

@Edent Thanks for that inspiration, it's something I've been meaning to start for a long time, possibly subconsciously, but I'm taking no credit for pretending to have come up with the concept myself. :)

I'm not a blogger, I write for myself:
blog.bt3.com/wp/2023/02/22/199

@bazbt31997-03-23 InternetIt’s 1997, March the 23rd to be precise. A Sunday afternoon. I’ve not long returned from PC World in Stretford England, the closest store that I believed would stock everything I need. …