---
title: "4 years of blogging for me too"
date: 2006-03-26
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# 4 years of blogging for me too

First I noticed [Paolo’s post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://paolo.evectors.it/2006/03/26.html#a2823) on 4 years blogging ([via Dave](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.scripting.com/2006/03/26.html#When:9:57:43AM)), then [Phil’s post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2006/3/27/#200603271). The bizarre part is I started blogging on the exact same day, 21 March 2002, as my fellow kiwi Phil Pearson – we even blogged about [the same topic](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/one_year_on_par.php#comment-250), RCS ([Radio Community Server](rcs.userland.com/)). I didn’t get to know Phil until a couple of years after that, so it was total coincidence we started blogging on the same day. It’s no coincidence though that Phil, Paolo and I were all inspired to start blogging 4 years ago by Dave Winer – who’s just coming up to [9 years blogging](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.scripting.com/2006/03/26.html#When:9:59:20AM)! Yikes, we’re all pups compared to that.

My first Radio Userland blog was called ‘Modern Web’ and was short-lived (more info [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/one_year_on_par.php)). But about about a year later Read/WriteWeb was born. Here’s a screenshot of the first blog.

![first post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/first_post.png)[Larger screenshot](https://web.archive.org/web/20100103051656/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/first_blog_post.gif)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4_years_bloggin.php))*