Back in 2014, Mike over at Troubled Diva did a bit of a survey into who had the longest-running blogs on the Internet, in the UK.

I was pleased to make it into the top 20, having started my blog (I think they were still called Weblogs back then) way back in 2001.

Blogging platforms that are in abundance nowadays, were scarce back then. Blogger was in it’s infancy and Matt Mullenweg hadn’t yet invented WordPress, so I built the pages with Microsoft Frontpage.  All the clever kids were using Dreamweaver, but I just couldn’t get the hang of it.

Adding photos was time consuming and being able to leave comments wasn’t something, I knew how to do, so the pages were pretty bland to start with.

I switched to using Blogger in about 2002, but hosted on my own (paid for) server with my own (paid for) domain, rather than the freebie that Blogger was offering.

In November 2006 I sold my .co.uk domain to the BBC for a tidy sum, purchased masher.tv and switched to WordPress.

Incidentally, it was in February 2006 that I started this annual blogathon rubbish.

Nothing much has changed since.

Anyway, I got to wondering whether – ten years on – many of those bloggers of old, were still posting.

It seems a mixed bag.

A couple of people have just stopped completely.

A couple more blogs seem to have evolved into something less whimsical and more commercial.

But a few are still going strong.

And I like to count myself amongst them. Yes, there has been the occasional hiatus, where a lack of time, inclination or inspiration have left the blog stagnant for a period, but I don’t think that’s ever been for more than a month or so. And yes, I’m annoyed at having lost so many of my archives – bad management on my part when changing hosting companies several times over the years.

But, I am still here and I am still blogging.

And so, with all that, I reckon I must have moved up the Longest UK Blogger ladder.

I might even be in the Top 10 now.