Finding the Internet Archive link for my 2012 blog made me realize that the Internet Archive (bless them, and of course, support them financially) has a bunch of my 2012 to 2017 blog posts which I mostly considered lost forever.
While I might prefer for them to be lost forever, I’ll still dive into the rabbit hole and import some early-Internet era (as far as I’m concerned) posts.
So here’s a history of my archives:
- In 2001, at age 7 or 8, I built my first website. Pretty proud to this day of how not-shameful it is.
- Status: live.
- From 2006 to 2009, I had a Skyblog. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has archived those, and I’ve also archived some parts of it to the Internet Archive.
- Status: Partially archived on the Internet Archive. Fully archived at the BNF, but only available in their own libraries or for a fee.
- From 2009 to some time in 2010, I had a blog on Unblog. This one was not archived and doesn’t exist anymore.
- Status: lost.
- In June 2010, I moved to another subdomain, still with Unblog, which I pretty much immediately gave up to use WordPress instead. It lasted less than a month.
- Status: live.
- From June 2010 to February 2012, I had moved wordpress.com and started finding some sense of identity.
- Status: live.
- In February 2012, I bought my first real domain name, which I ran on WordPress. Lots of stuff happened to it.
- Status: mostly archived.
- In 2016 or 2017, I bought the .com version of the domain name (before that, I had .fr) because my hosting provider locked me out of my account when I lost access to my email address, which I have never forgiven them for and still makes me wary of 2FA. I put a static resume-type page on there.
- Status: unfortunately archived.
- I decided to « pick up blogging again » sometime in 2019 or 2020, I think? So I moved back to wordpress, on the same domain name.
- Status: entirely imported here.
- In 2022, I bought alexsirac.com due to my name change and I haven’t moved since.
- Status: live.
In the coming weeks or months or hours or whenever I feel like it, really, I’ll be importing old posts that have some added value to this blog, using live websites and archives.