I forgot to post about this last week, but last Tuesday, September 13th, marked this weblog’s fifth year. HNBP is now a super-senior.
It all began with “Think,” a spare directory in my old Hypermart space (gone now) where I could tool around with various things — in this case, Blogger — as I reacquainted myself with the joys of hand-coding my own HTML, after years of being spoiled by Adobe Pagemill and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Back then, it was black backgrounds, table-based layouts, and <ALLCAPS> <TAGS>. (I still get a bit embarassed at myself when I look at the code on my old sites.)
Over the years, “Think” (later to be called “How Now Brownpau” in an obvious pun on my online handle) would cycle through a long and painful series of free web hosting services before I got my own credit card and was finally able to buy my own domain name and paid web hosting. The site has been demolished and rebuilt several times, quite often around its anniversary, so don’t be surprised if new changes appear sometime soon. ‘Tis the season.
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Hypermart…there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I worked with the 3 founders of the company at a web design firm prior to them doing Hypermart. 6 months after they started they sold out for 7.5 million – split 3 ways. Two of them were still in college at the time.
I miss the dot com heyday.
Congrats on five years! The traditional 5th anniversary gift is wood, so my (virtual) gift to you is this.
Congratulations! It’s “old” men like us who keep all this going isn’t it? ;)
Congrats on the blogaversary Your blog is most excellent.
Congrats, Pau! :D
Congratulations, BP!
I predict you will attain A-list status sometime in the next year! ;)