WordPress.com Forums » Tag: older bloggers circle - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/older-bloggers-circle WordPress.com Forums » Tag: older bloggers circle - Recent Posts en Tue, 21 May 2013 13:09:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 stonehead on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there/page/2#post-875084 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:37:58 +0000 stonehead 875084@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What Raincoaster really means is that I'm the baked beans of the internet. Too much of me and you'll be blowing hot air until the cows comes home.

(Mixed enough?)

]]> raincoaster on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there/page/2#post-874846 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:08:06 +0000 raincoaster 874846@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Stonehead has a way of inspiring people to mix their metaphors etc.

I have been online long enough that the 1984 commercial was like, "oh that looks awesome but there's no way the internet will ever unify enough to allow people to communicate in realtime, what EVER!"

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there/page/2#post-874587 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:19:53 +0000 maidiebike 874587@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oops I meant I've been online since 1987. (Not 2007. Big error.)

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there/page/2#post-874586 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:19:09 +0000 maidiebike 874586@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So you're still moving your archive into WordPress.com? Must be alot of content/complex content. I can't imagine.

Well I'm a 53+ baby blogger since I started in late 2009. (Remember I'm the kid on bike which I'm sure you are on bike too.)

But I've been online since 2007. I remember the days of thermal paper to print on database search results..without any screen. This is for my job. Then movin' up next year, I got the organization's 2nd computer (out of 250 employees) to do online database research (these same databases still cost money today, except now...$300.00 / hr. for online research time). No Windows, but at DOS level, memorizing and keying in search command string statements.

LOL, around that time, the organization got its first few fax machines. I was working for a provincial govn't agency.

]]> stonehead on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there/page/2#post-874533 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:12:51 +0000 stonehead 874533@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maidiebike, I first went online way back in 1981 using an Apple II and an acoustic coupler to access various BBSes and ACSnet. (How many people on here understood what I just wrote?) As I moved around and the internet developed I kept apace with developments.

In October 1993 I started an web-based diary/journal called the Bowerbird Cafe, focusing on food, poetry, writing and stray thoughts. Readers contributed their responses via email, which I then added to the journal. A year or so later the concept of weblogs appeared, along with blogrolls that were collections of links to weblogs. Both were essentially what I'd been doing since 1993. I'm still in touch with a couple of people who've read my blog since those very early days.

As semi-automate and automated tools and platforms came along, I adopted them where they fitted my way of blogging. I moved back and forth between hosted and self-hosted blogs, trying Open Diary, LiveJournal and blogger along the way. Eventually, I settled on WordPress and began migrating my archive material while adding new material.

I still haven't finished moving the archive, but I'll get there one day. It's quite peculiar to consider I've been blogging for almost 19 years and online for 31 years. And there are people who've been online for even longer than that. It often comes as a surprise to some younger people who think the web and the internet were invented "yesterday".

Still, it means I can now say "Eh, I remember when…" :D

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874482 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:28:59 +0000 maidiebike 874482@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oops I'm getting old, I mixed in my response for 2 topic threads into this thread.

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874481 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:27:40 +0000 maidiebike 874481@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OMIGAWD, stonehead. You really did blog that far back in history! I wonder if you are one of the rare bloggers on this forum.

Gosh, are you Elder Blogger? ;) How many blog themes have you used?

I like my blog because it presents photos plus accompanying real story andcomments in 1 neat little time capsule pkg. that I can revisit. And I do. :)

]]> stonehead on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874457 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:27:56 +0000 stonehead 874457@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I started my first blog I was 20 plus. Then I was 30 plus. Now I'm 40 plus. The archives make my blog a time machine—I can go back to my 20s with a swipe of my mouse. But 20s, 30s or 40s, I like to think I'm still the best darn Dungslinger in town!

]]> teamoyeniyi on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874446 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:59:29 +0000 teamoyeniyi 874446@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Jessie, I'm well over 40. You already visit us, I believe, for which I thank you, but if you haven't been for a while, stop by!

Listen, Raincoaster, I STILL have hormones. sheesh, the very cheek!

]]> raincoaster on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874403 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:00:46 +0000 raincoaster 874403@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Then things can only look up.

]]> melodylowes on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874389 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:39:30 +0000 melodylowes 874389@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Uh - I just joined the 'club'. It's official, too, because things are not where they used to be and they often creak.

]]> hnsaifi on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874384 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:14:15 +0000 hnsaifi 874384@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm not of 40+ but I'll remember you all when I'll be at the age of you guys.

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874378 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:49:15 +0000 maidiebike 874378@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Think of it this way: either it's really impressive or it elicits the "ick" factor, when one tells someone: I'm over half a century old.

Which I am. Yes, of course I still cycle daily and feel like a kid.

]]> dovesgold on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874369 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:29:36 +0000 dovesgold 874369@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ LOl Bird I'm 51 :) I'm just quite laid back (usually)
Have been described as "If you were any more laid back you'd be asleep"

]]> absurdoldbird on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874345 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:03:44 +0000 absurdoldbird 874345@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ wow, dovesgold, for some weird reason (though I don't know what weird reason) I thought you were really young... like, 20s or 30s!

]]> dovesgold on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874326 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:21:51 +0000 dovesgold 874326@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Creaks way into thread :D also same age range as Bird and TT except for the nearly 60+ bit; and lol yes Raincoaster :D

]]> absurdoldbird on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874311 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:17:58 +0000 absurdoldbird 874311@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ er... 'a few years later', that should've been. Though a few laters is just about right, really.

]]> absurdoldbird on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874310 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:17:14 +0000 absurdoldbird 874310@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ at 13/14 I was into The Walker Brothers, went to their concerts (when did concerts become gigs?) a few laters and I was rocking my head off to Led Zeppelin.

]]> jessielansdel on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874309 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:15:15 +0000 jessielansdel 874309@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ooh, well, when I was 13/14 I was mad about The Beach Boys. My room was covered in posters of them. Every time I got a bad school report my father threatened to take them all down. Now I can't bear to here their awful wailing. :)

]]> absurdoldbird on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874306 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:14:07 +0000 absurdoldbird 874306@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster. Yep!

]]> timethief on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874260 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:42:24 +0000 timethief 874260@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster
I need that laugh :D

]]> ardpete on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874245 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:23:54 +0000 ardpete 874245@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Haha Jessie I'm only in Derbyshire I say bairn too to people even younger than me =D

]]> raincoaster on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874202 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:16:34 +0000 raincoaster 874202@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ "Then?" Back when we had hormones?

]]> absurdoldbird on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874184 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:47:11 +0000 absurdoldbird 874184@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was thinking 'music' and stuff we enjoyed then, Jessie, rather than moods. Gigs, bands, films, holidays, etc.

]]> invisiblemikey on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874157 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:26:12 +0000 invisiblemikey 874157@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster ---
Jason Segel and Seth Rogen won't share. Sorry.

(Everyone knows I'm officially a geeze.)

]]> raincoaster on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874075 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:04:29 +0000 raincoaster 874075@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ According to Quantcast, my blog is HUGE with guys aged 18-26. Yes, I'm the American Pie of WordPress.com I guess. Now where's my Judd Apatow level money?

]]> maidiebike on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-874006 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:28:04 +0000 maidiebike 874006@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does that mean then, no one will want to read our unhip blogs? :D

Come on, if the teen bloggers are discovered, then we have to uncover the sugar daddies, sugar mamas, cougars (latter, for women lusting after much younger men)...

My age range is given in my 2nd most recent blog post in http://cyclewriteblog.wordpress.com

]]> timethief on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-873974 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:04:13 +0000 timethief 873974@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @jessielansdel
I'm in the same age range as absurdoldbird but I have no inclination to revisit my teen years. :)

]]> jessielansdel on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-873972 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:02:27 +0000 jessielansdel 873972@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ard. Aww, your just a bairn yet. (bairn = baby or child in Yorkshire) but you know that anyway. But you can join in. Good practice for when you reach that milestone. ;)

]]> jessielansdel on "Any 40+ bloggers out there?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/any-40-bloggers-out-there#post-873971 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:59:03 +0000 jessielansdel 873971@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, we can Bird. But my teens were a nightmare. I was a complete nutter and everyone seemed to think I needed a shrink. Lol. I saw one.......when I was 51. ;)

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