Blogger from the past

I just read an article in sfgate.com stating that after 11 years, Justin Hall has stopped blogging. That's wild.

I worked with Justin many, many years ago. We worked together way back in 1996 at Electric Minds. (It was my last summer before finishing art school, and I was working for Abbe Don at that time) Justin was the first person to teach me the art of HTML text/layout formatting - pulling out words and quotes from the straight HTML paragraph, and formatting them so that they would stand out in an artistic way. Back then, Justin was probably only 22 or 23. He was the first person that I ever met who had an online journal that he constantly updated. We have a word for that now, of course: "Blogging".

According to this article in sfgate.com, The New York Times Magazine had labeled Justin Hall as "The founding father of personal blogging".

Over the years, I checked into his site on rare occassion. Mostly just to see if he was still out there, and what he was up to.
I hadn't thought to look at it over the last couple of months. Reading about him on sfgate.com was a heck of a way to catch up on him and his blog.

The web is a pretty wild place.