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November 02, 2003
Sunday
 
 
Samizdata is two today.
Natalie Solent (Essex)  Blogging & Bloggers

Here's our first week's archives. As da boss said back then, "Post away and remember... let's NOT be safe out there!"

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I am honored that fate has allowed me to be the first to congratulate you!


Posted by David Sucher at November 2, 2003 10:15 PM

Natalie tickled my memory and I discovered a bit of date synchronicity. According to the registrar, my own islandone.org
domain was:

Created On:01-Nov-1994 05:00:00 UTC

So www.islandone.org is starting it's 10th year on the internet.
God how time flies!


Posted by Dale Amon at November 2, 2003 11:46 PM

Happy Birthday to Samizdata and may there be many more of them!


Posted by Scott Wickstein at November 3, 2003 12:09 AM

A very happy birthday to a truly inspirational and brilliant blog. Please keep up the good work - undoubtedly many of the pieces here have influenced my own thinking and continue to help spread libertarian ideas around the world and promote the libertarian meta-context, as Perry would call it.


Posted by Stephen Hodgson at November 3, 2003 12:28 AM

Congrats, and thanks for running a fun blog.

I'll put a few .45 slugs through a UN symbol in honor of your birthday this afternoon at the range.


Posted by Lackey at November 3, 2003 12:45 AM

Outstanding. Congratulations !



Posted by Sylvain Galineau at November 3, 2003 02:18 AM

Congratulations on sustaining such a challenging, stimulating blog, packed with scintillating talent. More power to you. Oh, er, that last bit doesn't sound very libertarian, does it?


Posted by Dave F at November 3, 2003 11:43 AM

David's a right-winger?


Posted by Tim Haas at November 3, 2003 04:11 PM

Happy Birthday Samizdata! Oh and Dale,

So www.islandone.org is starting it's 10th year on the internet.

Sheesh, you must have been there when they turned the Internet on ;)


Posted by JohnJo at November 3, 2003 09:58 PM

Ten years is nothing. Depends how you define "internet" but it goes back at least to the early 1980s, and you can argue fairly convincingly that it was turned on in the late 1960s. (I'm a Johnny come lately myself, and have only been using it for just over 15 years).


Posted by Michael Jennings at November 3, 2003 10:13 PM

Somewhere in a bunch of packed files I have a short piece of teletype paper with the full listing of all the machines on the arpanet... in 1973.

There were about 20.


Posted by Dale Amon at November 6, 2003 12:16 AM
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