I started writing online as soon as I got an internet connection, so at the turn of the century (doesn’t that make it sound like it was the stone age?). I don’t know how I came across opendiary and teenopendiary, but I started blogging there. At first, like most people who had one of those at the time, I wrote about the minutiae of my daily life and, as I started to make the acquaintance of HTML and photoshop, to share some photos. I’ve always liked writing down thoughts and events in order to remember them later on, but what I really loved about this online diary thing, was being able to read what people on the other side of the world were up to. I can’t help it, I’ve always loved to read diaries and epistolary novels, but this was even better because I could get live updates and make a connection with these people. This coincided with the times when I was in my last years of high school, a time of my life that wasn’t great, which made having an outlet and some people to talk to outside of my circle a really good way of letting go.

From here I moved on to diaryland for a brief period of time. I really liked that website because it looked more like a blog and you had more freedom to design your own page, but this phase wasn’t long, I can’t remember when. And then came livejournal, which started (and I quote from my first entry)