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Messages to Friends

In 1997, I started occasionally sending emails to all of my friends that I was in contact with by email. At first simply listing them all as recipients in a regular email, but later I maintained a proper mailinglist for it.

My habits changed gradually, and by 2004 I no longer used that list - posting news directly on my website instead.

When I learned about the concept of "blogging" I realized that in a way that is what I had been practising back then, just not using the RSS or Atom distribution mechanisms making proper blogging so extremely efficient.

Now I decided to re-release my old Friends posts as modern blog entries, for archival purposes.

Even if I didn't know about blogging, my web programming tool back then was Frontier, which later became one of the first blogging tools. That happened after a shift to a more commercial licensing model - an issue which back then meant enough for me to abandon it, and now is essential to my approach to computers.