Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Six years ago today I bought my first domain (that'd be this one). I'd been blogging for a month or so using the free forwarding service ninja.dk to cover up the fact that I was using my highschool's webspace. Yes, my high school was cool enough to provide public webspace for all pupils (at least since '97 when I made my first webpage there). While the killifish.ninja.dk domain I was using was certainly cool it would be infinitely cooler to have my own domain name. I had also finished high school that summer and wasn't sure when my access to their servers would be cut off.

So I've been blogging on and off for 6 years now. The archives in this incarnation only goes back to April 2004 and that's probably a good thing. I can't point to my first post and say “Boy, that was weird.’ I've gone from being “a snot-nosed 19 year-old Danish kid” (according to The Archive's Wayback Machine) to being “a 25 year-old university student living in Aalborg, Denmark” and I like to think my blog has changed along with me.

I feel I should find something from the archives even though they only go back two and a half years. It'll be videoblog-related since that's what this blog quickly turned into:

• It's a gif! It's Flash! No, it's videoblogging! in which I discover that there is a thing called videoblogging (May 3rd, 2004)
• Testing videoblogging in which I put my first video online (June 21st, 2004)
• Julius Caesar the abridged version in which I re-create a book-a-minute version of Julius Ceasar with puppets. It is also the video I tell people was my first and then hope they don't find the real first. (June 26th, 2004)
• …and finally: A Small Confession in which I accept automated video comments for the first time (August 31st, 2004 — also my third video). It features younger, more handsome versions of Eric Rice and Chris Weagel. It looks like my original video won't play (comments play fine). Here's the direct link to the video that isn't playing