May 31, 2002

8:45 AM

Today is the seventh anniversary of the launch of Jeffrey Zeldman Presents. Is this the longest running weblog/journal/daily report?
posted by timeistight (6 comments total)

Good question. That's a long long time. I still remember his first design.

Happy anniversary, Daily Report.
posted by iconomy at 8:57 AM on May 31, 2002

I think DaveNet / Scripting News is the longest running weblog. (Or so he claims here). His archives go back to '94.
posted by mfbridges at 9:37 AM on May 31, 2002

Dave Winer:

I did my first weblog in February 1996, as part of the 24 Hours of Democracy website. It helped glue the community together, along with a mail list that was hosted by AOL. In April 1996 I started a news page for Frontier users, which became Scripting News on 4/1/97.

Jeffrey Zeldman:

Fun facts about zeldman.com:

Billing itself as “Jeffrey Zeldman Presents” (a none-too-subtle nod to “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”) this site premiered in May 1995.

and:

The site always included daily text on a root-level page called coming.html, though visitors mostly ignored that page until the late 1990s.

posted by timeistight at 10:13 AM on May 31, 2002

Links.net, circa late '93-early '94.
posted by bradlands at 10:32 AM on May 31, 2002

Happy Anniversary, Z-man. Keep up the good work.
posted by Marquis at 12:12 PM on May 31, 2002

mfbridges, Dave will be very happy to see that someone has tasted his Kool-Aid. Of course, your mention assures us that he won't come here and get pissed that he's not mentioned in the thread, so I guess we have to thank you.

Also, happy birthday, Jeffrey...
posted by delfuego at 10:06 PM on May 31, 2002