What Made Blogging Different? by Elizabeth Spiers

This piece really resonated for me. I started a website for a niche interest in the early 90s, which became surprisingly popular, mostly because so few people (and definitely few women in their early 20s) were making websites. About a decade later, I started a Blogspot blog (again about a niche interest, again becoming surprisingly popular, mostly due to the dearth of blogs on this subject), but by then the online masses had already started to curdle, and I learned that if you’re a woman online, you better keep it pseudonymous for your own safety and sanity. This piece brought all that back. I miss the blogging days, too. Hence this blog, I guess.