Tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, marks the first anniversary of disassociated’s migration to the WordPress CMS. It’s been quite a ride, which incredibly, almost saw disassociated behave like a blog (though I still prefer to call it a website) for a time.

Three posts made (thanks Kurt :) the front page of Digg (subsequently melting down disassociated’s erstwhile web server), there was a change in web hosts after ten years with the same Australian host, and a recent post about a $175 hamburger draw some amazing comments (some NSFW).

What I’d forgotten though, was what I doing for many days and nights in May last year: preparing an upload file to import 600+ old posts - dating from 2002 - by cutting and pasting text from old static HTML files, into the new WP database.

A post at Zeldman the other day that bought that experience back to me.

I started my site in 1995. There weren’t blogging tools back then, hence there aren’t archives in the sense you are describing. I published via hand-coded HTML until around 2004, when I began using WordPress. All my pre-WordPress content is still online; you just have to keep hitting the “PREVIOUS” button to get to it. Sorry about that.

Zeldman referred to the pre CMS, blogging tools, days as a time when you “rolled your own”, using hand coded HTML and text editors such as NotePad to build websites with. And indeed, those were the days :)

Thanks to everyone for being here this last year (and the ten before that of course), for reading and commenting. I appreciate it. Have a great weekend. :)