One night recently, whilst in the throes of insomnia, I decided to rummage through the dusty archives of my hard drive and pull together a collection of blog posts from the year 1999. At that time I wrote a blog titled The Applebee Chronicles, so-called because I wasted an appalling amount of time and money at that establishment. When I say "wasted" I don't mean I didn't receive value for the dollars I spent; I mean only that the amount of money I spent at that bar could have paid for a nice automobile. Sigh.
I found 30 of the old posts and so I created a new blog titled—what else?—The Applebee Chronicles. The posts that are on the Chronicles are as banal as the posts on this blog but with, perhaps, a bit more introspection. You can find the Chronicles here. Remember, if you start reading at the top post, you’re starting at the end. Not that it matters a lot.
As a historical note, the Oxford English Dictionary says the word “blog” was coined May 23, 1999. Certainly at the time I was writing the Chronicles I had not heard of the word, so I didn’t know I was writing a blog. I posted the short articles on a personal website, and I did have readers! So there.
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