One year ago today, we first started blighting the Internet with a pixilated stream of opinions, rants, pictures, invective and sundry insightful pontifications.
Like most bloggers, we started out using www.blogger.com to publish, using the vexed blogspot servers to host our site… and also like so many we migrated to the ever more powerful Movable Type. Nevertheless, credit where credit is due to Evan Williams of Blogger.com for making it possible for blogs to explode onto the Internet scene with such vigour.
Also special thanks to Glenn at Instapundit for providing the inspiration for starting this blog, not to mention a few early links that well and truly got the show on the road for us.
Above all, thanks to Dale Amon for bringing the whole concept of blogging to my attention. If you really love (or hate) us, he is the one you should thank (blame) for getting me started!
Tonight we are having the inevitable party (we never need much of an excuse for a party) at the Black Widow Pub to toast our continuing diatribes.
Thanks to all our readers for coming along for the ride as we lionise all that is right with the world and rail against everything that irks us.
We have only just begun to fight!
Happy birthday, Samizdata, from a dedicated Yank reader. Hope the celebration goes well….I think I remember having a pint or five at that watering hole the last time I was in London, staying as I was in S Kensington.
Happy birthday to the blog (and the bloggers) who inspired my little blog.
Fess up, Perry, at what exact time was Sami’s first post? Cos my blog came into the world on the same day, with the same father (Dale Amon), the same mother (Glenn Reynolds), and I want to see which of us twins is the elder and gets to inherit the title.
Keep up the great work! Your site is one of the best. That’s why we link to you.
Natalie: First article posted in the morning of Nov 2nd, 09:07 am
Happy anniversary, and thanks for the great work!
Happy anniversary from me too, and thanks for inspiring me to start my own blog, which I’ll advertise in a few days (hence indirect thanks to Dale Amon too).
Oh, and thanks to Tom Burroughes for mentioning to me the very concept of “blog”.
Happy anniversary, Samizdata! Many happy returns!
A laurel, and hearty, “Well Done,” dear kith across the pond. Long may ye blog!
Happy blogday to you!
I too wish each of you ‘happy blogday.’ Your ideas are rational, well-developed and always interesting. Keep posting and I will keep reading. Thanks.
Congratulations on your first year- may it be the first of many. Strangely enough, a year ago, I’d never heard of blogging, or any of this strange new world…
And congrats to Natalie for her year up as well 🙂
Congratulations, Samizdata, on your first anniversary. It’s been an excellent first year, and I’m sure the good work will continue. Nice to see the younger blogs growing up.
Then you, O Samizdata, inherit the title, unless you get killed in the wars.