Scribble.nu

Ok, out of curiosity from my reminiscing about blogging days on one of the first journal sites to ever exist, I did what many of us do.... I googled...

A note from the original owner: (I double checked and the domain name is now some site in German about Backgammon or something?)

scribble.nu
"One of the first journal / blog services on the Internet. Became insanely popular at the time, serving almost 100,000 users before it imploded from its success. I spent literally hundreds of hours tweaking our strained servers (two of them: one web server, one database server) to support an ever increasing load. I still receive hate mail occasionally wondering why I had to take this service off line. When you have to decide between paying your server bills or your rent, something has to give. Somewhere I still have all of the scribble.nu code and databases; I should get it back online for nostalgia."  Taken from http://dustin.io/things-i-did/

My "writing hate email" face. Photo: Surreal Sister 2012

I totally would have sent this guy hate mail over my lost entries years ago, but remembering at the time I was a senior in high school and most of it was about boys and school, I am sure I would only be embarrassed by revisiting them. Maybe scribble.nu did me a favor... I look forward to getting more accommodated with blogspot and having faith that they most likely won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

Ungirlyness...

That title? Oh yeah, well I suck at being a girl, I mean as far as knowing how to do things like hair or what is currently in style or what shoes go with what. Yeah, I am not the person you would come to with these questions...

In fact, I would be the person that should be your "don't do it this way" example.

But truly this blog isn't about that at all.

I used to journal all the time, I even used to have a scribble.nu account back in the 90s, when the internet first started working it's way into homes on a larger scale. When the phone ringing would kick me offline and I would lose hours of code....anyhow the day that site went offline forever was traumatic, having lost almost a year of entries. So, I never felt the need to do that again or trust some online site with my precious trivial thoughts! How dare they!

But what the hell... let's see how this goes.

Photo: Surreal Sister 2012