As kijin mentions in their comment, maintaining your blog was a labor of love - personally I miss the old internet - the early days, when it was a wild wild wes

As kijin mentions in their comment, maintaining your blog was a labor of love - personally I miss the old internet - the early days, when it was a wild wild west, when my internet time was still divided with my BBS time. Everything grows up, and as things become more popular, they become more mainstream and open up to wider audiences. I know those old days are gone (and very fondly remembered) but I also know that what was my favorite past time has become a great career - one I can wake up to every morning, eager to do my job. There is a lot more noise out there now as all of this has become common, and there are millions of blogs - but there are still great ones out there, worth following and consuming - and hopefully the noise learns to not be uniform and figure out their own identities, and appeal properly to the consumers. I am thankful for how things have evolved, even when wistful.