Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected (Interconnected)

Posted on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025. 1,844 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected 13.22, Wednesday 19 Feb 2025 Link to this post I started blogging here precisely 25 years ago on 19 February 2000. I was 22 when I started and I am now 47. My silver jubilee! I felt when I started in February 2000 that I was coming to blogging late. I procrastinated about setting it up. People I knew were already doing it. interconnected.org was the home for a web toy that was decently popular, so I choose a subdirectory (/home) and I’ve been here ever since. It was a very social era and I was figuring out what my blog was for (we were all figuring it

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