Want to find my old Blog

[kettlethings]

Hello, Thanks in advance for bearing with me on this. Back in 1997 I leveraged my house, took the kids out of school and my wife and I bought a small sailboat on the east coast and went on an adventure. The trip was great because we didn't die. Of course there were plenty of up's and down's.

At that time I had a blog to document the trip. I didn't know jack back then about the internet but thought it would be cool to be able to share with friends back home.

All these years later I am now wondering where the heck the blog went. My memory from that time is that there was a $99/year payment to apple for one thing or another. I guess it was for the blog and perhaps some other service. All I know is that when we got back from the trip the great recession began and $99 was not something I wanted to pay for.

By the way our trip culminated in a few winter months of sailing, fishing and playing in the Bahamas. Luckily I sold the boat in Florida about 6 months after we began. It was an awesome trip.

My daughter and I were talking this past weekend and she commented that it is probably still out there, behind a paywall no doubt and that I should try to find it again so we can refresh the memories.

Can anyone out there give me any advice on where to start looking for this blog. I simply did a search with my last name and a rough description of what we did but go nowhere. I also would not have the old email I used ( I think it was a juno.com address)

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you, Sincerely, Jason

 

[chrfr]

Hello, Thanks in advance for bearing with me on this. Back in 1997 I leveraged my house, took the kids out of school and my wife and I bought a small sailboat on the east coast and went on an adventure. The trip was great because we didn't die. Of course there were plenty of up's and down's.

At that time I had a blog to document the trip. I didn't know jack back then about the internet but thought it would be cool to be able to share with friends back home.

All these years later I am now wondering where the heck the blog went. My memory from that time is that there was a $99/year payment to apple for one thing or another. I guess it was for the blog and perhaps some other service. All I know is that when we got back from the trip the great recession began and $99 was not something I wanted to pay for.

By the way our trip culminated in a few winter months of sailing, fishing and playing in the Bahamas. Luckily I sold the boat in Florida about 6 months after we began. It was an awesome trip.

My daughter and I were talking this past weekend and she commented that it is probably still out there, behind a paywall no doubt and that I should try to find it again so we can refresh the memories.

Can anyone out there give me any advice on where to start looking for this blog. I simply did a search with my last name and a rough description of what we did but go nowhere. I also would not have the old email I used ( I think it was a juno.com address)

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you, Sincerely, Jason

If you had it hosted with Apple, it's gone. They used to offer a service for that but now it doesn't exist anymore and the data is deleted.

 

[kettlethings]

Oh that is too bad! thank you

 

[Red Menace]

If it was a publicly visible web page (and you can remember the name), you might try the WaybackMachine to see if it got captured at some time.

 

[kettlethings]

awesome. thanks. I will look and will get back to you if I am successful.

 

[jpn]

Hello, Thanks in advance for bearing with me on this. Back in 1997 I leveraged my house, took the kids out of school and my wife and I bought a small sailboat on the east coast and went on an adventure. The trip was great because we didn't die. Of course there were plenty of up's and down's.

At that time I had a blog to document the trip. I didn't know jack back then about the internet but thought it would be cool to be able to share with friends back home.

All these years later I am now wondering where the heck the blog went. My memory from that time is that there was a $99/year payment to apple for one thing or another. I guess it was for the blog and perhaps some other service. All I know is that when we got back from the trip the great recession began and $99 was not something I wanted to pay for.

By the way our trip culminated in a few winter months of sailing, fishing and playing in the Bahamas. Luckily I sold the boat in Florida about 6 months after we began. It was an awesome trip.

My daughter and I were talking this past weekend and she commented that it is probably still out there, behind a paywall no doubt and that I should try to find it again so we can refresh the memories.

Can anyone out there give me any advice on where to start looking for this blog. I simply did a search with my last name and a rough description of what we did but go nowhere. I also would not have the old email I used ( I think it was a juno.com address)

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you, Sincerely, Jason

hi Jason,

your adventure sounds wonderful, and life shaping, for both you and your family. well done !

your post reminded me of those early internet days with apple and the bondi blue iMac.

i myself had a blog using iTools around that time as well. except of course it wasn't called a blog, just a home page.

i wonder if your blog was this iTools homepage?

the thing to check however, is, the start of iTools may have been only around 2000. so I'm not sure if 1997 was possible using this...

as much as we going this far back, your post also reminded me of something called The Microsoft Network. Which was up and running in homes as early as 1995.

Just seeing this image of login screen for The Microsoft Network makes me re-hear my home modem whizzing at a 33.6 Kbps rate...really i can hear the sound of it connecting even now.

that modem connecting sound at such a slow rate was, to all of us, the sound of our small apartments connecting us to the much greater world and its potential.