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Who invented blogging

  Someone did a search on Google for “who invented blogging.”   ShowMeBlog was number two on the list and they came here.

    The first link when you do the Google search is to Yahoo Answers.  They seem to say Jorn  Barger in December of 1997.  Sorry wrong answer. I was doing it in 1982! 
    The next link takes you to ShowMeBlog and what I wrote in 01/09/2006.  
    The next link take you to Cnet News.  That is a post that I have yelled and screamed about.  When it was first written they named three or four people and gave a date of 1995.  They have since gone in a number of times and edited the post.  They have softened their statements and left it open that others were doing things like it.  I still object to the post and expect better from Cnet.

Nude painting

  I was talking to my ex-wife on the telephone.  She said she was going to start doing oil paintings again.  She is very good and she does them very fast. 
  That got me to remembering a long long time ago when we were married she was doing a lot of art work and oil paintings and I told her do a nude of me.  She did a fully nude painting of me.
  We had her art work on the walls of our house and we hung (no pun ment) that one on the wall.  Soon as we got it hung on the wall a group came to the door and it was the local church group paying us a visit so I ran to the other room and took the painting down.  We put it in the closet.
  
  I forget how long it was..but time when by and she said she wanted to paint some but she was out of canvas.  She said she just felt like painting and could pain on an old painting.  I looked and then I found the old painting of me.  I got it out for her and she said what should I do with it.  I said make my penis just a little bigger…not much..just a little bigger…
  So she made a minor adjustment to that part of my body…
  Hay, I liked it.. So I put it back on the wall and made a little prayer that the church group would not visit us again.
  Well her mother came over just about every day and her mother came over and saw the painting and made some comment about the size of my penis being bigger than real life! How did you know?
  Then one day my mother came over and she saw the painting and laughed and commented about the size of my penis!  I think the last time she saw me nude was when she giving me baths when I was little.
 

Twitter Message from Scott Rosenberg

 “ @n0uwy I acknowledge many examples of predecessors to blogs in book (& video), tho' not yrs. I think u miss my point (no 1st or "inventor")”

Here is Scott Rosenberg’s video from YouTube:  The First Blogger, with Scott Rosenberg.
He did the video May 28, 2009.   I mention the date because much of what he says sounds like my video which I did on YouTube on August 2, 2007.  I am NOT saying he even saw my video or anything but I want to make it clear that I was saying it years ago and I did not get any of the points from his video.

Say Everything and Say Nothing

  I commented here before about Scott Rosenberg’s book called “Say Everything:  How Blogging Began.”  I even posted his video from YouTube here:  The First Blogger, with Scott Rosenberg. 
  I attempted to post my YouTube video: Did Jim Howard Invent the Blog?     as a Video Response but he did not allow any video responses. 

  

  I found “Wordyard” which is Scott Rosenberg’s blog.  In a post on the blog he mentions that he used the Internet Wayback Machine for his research.  No wonder he screwed up his book. 
  In his blog post he mentions “blog historian” Rudolf Ammann and that he found links to Dan Gillmore’s “pioneering” EJournal blog beginning in 1999! 
  My God, I get so tired of this crap.  I was doing a blog in 1982!  It was written up in “Link-Up” magazine in 1984. I was blogging before the world wide web was invented in 1995.  
  Did I invent the blog?  If you watch my video I think I do a pretty good job of covering that subject.  I KNOW for a fact that I was doing a blog before ANY of the people that are mentioned as the first to do a blog.  They are all mentioned in the 1995-1999 range.  I was blogging in 1982! 
  Now some guy may have been doing a blog before me.  That is possible and I mention that in my video.  Now some people, very few, that give me some credit will say …something to the effect that …yes you were doing a BBS and that was early blogging and you were one of thousands doing a blog…I do not say that I was blogging because I was doing a BBS in 1982.  (I did Howard’s Notebook from 1982 until the world wide web was invented in 1995 and then I moved it to the www.)  I say I was doing to blog in 1982 because it had all the content of a blog.  I commented daily and gave personal views, news and information.  I had list of information and you could click on some of the information and my BBS would dial out on the other phone line and connect you to that site. 
  I am not out to be listed as the father of blogging or the inventor of blogging.  I am just here saying that blogging was NOT invented in 1999 or in 1995.  I KNOW I was doing it in 1982. 

 

Montana resident now world’s oldest man

  The following is from Yahoo! News and they got it from AP.

“GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Walter Breuning learned to read by kerosene lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson.

The 112-year-old resident of Great Falls, Mont., apparently became the world's oldest man when 113-year-old Henry Allingham of England died Saturday. Breuning was born Sept. 21, 1896.

Now living at the Rainbow Retirement Home, Breuning takes one aspirin and eats two meals a day. He strolls the halls wearing a suit and tie and still walks the ramps to his second-floor apartment.

Breuning said he's more grateful for his health than he is for a world title.

"If you're in good health, you've got everything there is," he told the Great Falls Tribune…”

  Breuning credits his longevity to keeping busy and practicing moderation.  I think he is correct.  I been telling my kids “moderation in all things” for years.  I think that is one of the key things in all factors of life. 

My Tandy TRS-80

 
    The phone above is of me and my Radio Shack Model I TRS-80 computer.  If I remember correct I got it in 1977.  It came with 4K of memory  and a 4K operating system. I got it upgraded to 48K of memory.  In the photo above you will see in the right hand corner my ESF drive.  I loved my computer.  I had a lot of computers over the years.  I had a VIC-20 and I even ran a bulletin board system on the VIC-20 for a day just so I could say I did it.  I had a number of Commodore 64 computers.  That was a great computer.  I ran my BBS on a C64 for years.  I even had a SX-64 and of course a Radio Shack Model 100.  It is sort of funny … I do not even own a laptop computer now. 
  I even owned a TI-59 programmable calculator.  God I hate to think how much money I spent on it and the printer for it.
  I even owned two Tandy 2000 computers.  I loved that computer.  I loved all my computers.  Smile

  Those were the good old days.  Smile
  OK OK, 300 baud was not so great.  Smile

Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

  On July 17, 1981 I know were I was at 7:05 PM.  That is the date and time of the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse in Kansas City (MO). 

“The Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse was a major disaster that occurred on July 17, 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others during a tea dance. At the time it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history…”

 

Iowa Police Chief Accidentally Shoots Officer

“CARTER LAKE, Iowa - A Carter Lake police officer is recovering after officials say the police chief accidentally shot him at police headquarters.
City Attorney Joe Thornton says Police Chief Shawn Kannedy was discussing firearms with two officers on Wednesday when Kannedy's weapon went off. Sgt. Dan Driver was hit in the torso.
Driver was taken to Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., where he was reported in good condition.
Kannedy was placed on administrative leave.”

  These sort of stories just make me crazy.  I worked from 1972 to 2000 as a hospital security officer.  I  was armed.  I was a small town police officer for ten years.  Never did my firearm every go off accidentally.
   You never point a firearm at any person unless you plan to shoot them.  You always treat the firearm as if it is loaded even when you know it is not.  You never put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
    I never showed my gun to people.  I never talked about it with people.
    I did have to point my firearm at a few people over the years. I never had my finger on the trigger because I did not go into shoot mode.
   

Smoking or gays?

“WASHINGTON (CNN) -- You've seen the iconic picture of a soldier with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, but that could soon be a thing of the past.

A new study commissioned by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs recommends a complete ban on tobacco, which would end tobacco sales on military bases and prohibit smoking by anyone in uniform, not even combat troops in the thick of battle.

According to the study, tobacco use impairs military readiness in the short term. Over the long term, it can cause serious health problems, including lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. The study also says smokeless tobacco use can lead to oral and pancreatic cancer.

The Defense Department's top health officials are studying the report's suggestions and will make recommendations to the Pentagon's policy team and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The study recommends phasing out tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars over a five- to 10-year period…”

    The CNN story goes on to say that many in the military object to a ban on smoking.  

    The military is so upset with the idea of gays in the military, and we know that about 10% of the military is gay, I think we should offer a deal …It could be you can smoke if you agree to gays in the military.  Smile
   

Blogging before 2003

  I been doing a blog for a long time.  In fact I been doing one since 1982!  I know many people say that blogging began in 1995.  They are wrong.  I know they are wrong on that information.
  I could just be the father and inventor of blogging.  Whip that smile off your face buddy!  Smile
  There was a web site that listed the inventor of blogging.  I left a comment on the site and one of the readers of the comment went to ShowMeBlog and checked it out and then he posted a comment that I was not telling the truth because he saw that I started blogging using TypePad in 2003.
  I also had a blog review site do a review of my blog and in the review the guy said that I said I had been online since 1982.  He said the same thing…that I was using TypePad and began blogging in 2003.
  I do not understand how they can not see that I was around and blogging before there was a TypePad, before there was a LiveJournal.  Hell, I was blogging  before there was a world wide web.
  I had to write my own software at first.  I did not use it very long because other people started to write software.

  By the way just before I started using TypePad, 2003, to host my blog I used LiveJournal.  If you want to read my blog before 2003 you will have to go to HowardNet on LiveJournal.  
   I also had a blog on Xanga and it began 12/28/2002.

  I started doing the LiveJournal blog on 06/04/2000.  I made 1,278 post to the site and 242 comments were left on the site.
  The important thing to keep in mind is that I was blogging before there was a TypePad, LiveJournal or even the world wide web.