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In 1999, I was a happy, new presence on the web, editing HTML files and uploading them to splotchy.com. \u00a0I talked about records I bought, milkshakes I drank, motel signage I fancied. It was the 90’s!<\/p>\n

Then, after a long hiatus from having a presence on the Internet, I came back. \u00a0I started blogging in 2007. \u00a0I made blogger friends. \u00a0Some bloggers I met in person, some I only knew online.<\/p>\n

I blogged pretty seriously (is seriously the right word?) for several years. \u00a0Gradually, many bloggers stopped blogging. \u00a0Some went to Facebook. \u00a0I know at least one died, though she wasn’t someone I knew well. \u00a0Friends of mine were friends with her. \u00a0Her old Twitter account still gets recommended to me from time to time, and it’s a mixed feeling of poignancy and uneasiness I get every time it happens.<\/p>\n

One of my blogger friends deleted his blog back in 2009. \u00a0He said it was because of the new job he was getting. I still have his blog in Google Reader. \u00a0Google Reader will cache posts for a time. \u00a0I’m not sure how long it does, but his blog still sits there, even if it no longer exists in the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

I noticed that there were 50+ posts in my RSS feed for his blog today. \u00a0Someone has apparently taken his blog address and is using it for spam. <\/p>\n

Crap is what people will see if they visit his quirkily-named URL. \u00a0They won’t have any record of what was there. \u00a0But I still remember.<\/p>\n

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