This website, TheAnand.com came to life 10 years ago today.ย It has been a exciting journey so far and the world has changed so much!
Reflecting on a few things from the top of my head that have changed drastically since I started on Geocities in 2000s –
- Dial-up internet! (those long cables that ran from the bedroom to living room where the phone was and came out after 11pm? Remember?)
- WordPress had just got into version 2. At 100,000 downloads and just 4% market share. They were called Weblogs? Web Authoring tools?
- MSN and Yahoo! Messengers
- Websites had guestbooks.
- Flash animations on intro pages to websites and animations that followed the mouse pointer!
Much simpler digital advertising times when you just had to buy a bunch of pop-unders, CPM ads to get traffic and we sprayed the whole wall to hit a fly. By comparison, digital marketers today have the surgical precision tools to target the eyes of that same fly!
So here is a thank you to you, my reader and the “internet” for teaching me so much and helping me and many others in so many unforeseen ways. Thank you! Also, a special shout out to a good friend from the Netherlands – King Nomar! (yea, we just had “screen names” back then!).
If you have been a reader of this blog since long, and are reading this post today, please say ‘hi’ in the comments. I want to hear from you! #nostalgic
TheAnand a.k.a Anand Subramanian. ๐
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Hey man,
Whats the King Nomar story?
So its been 9 years since the first Blog camp Kerala. Feels like yesterday.
Indeed. That was a good event, putting faces to their handles. ๐ The blogcamp was in 2008 though.
Hi Anand, I was just browsing the web and decided to go along some old blog friends. Long time ago someone called me that, haha!
I appreciate the shoutout, thanks a lot! Good to see you still active online.
Talk soon sometime on whatsapp or skype ๐
Greetings!!