Squidism

Hello guys.

It was after some tedious work that i was able to figure out my username - i would say that the effort is worth it.After locating my username and login in back to blogger made me feel so much differently, the list of contributors the different posts they made, it has come a long way, with so many users and blogs.

If i remember correctly we created this somewhere back in 2001 - I remember I used a lousy dial up connection and spent 2 hours on reading and filling the online form, on the other end Ashraf was messing with some IRC bots and following :)

I remember a time when only this blog was the most updated blog on blogger.com - and it was alyways on the list ;).That ofcourse was the effort of all those contributors you see in there.

During those time - it was very hard to host a blog on blogspot.com, it had some ads and no one wanted to have ads on thier blogs, it had connetivity issues and there were outages very often. Everyone was looking into getting personal hosting and not interested on blogspot at all.

The same way we also moved squidism blog from blogspot to a local web server at Dhivehinet - with the help of Nattey ( Nattey was the pioneer of blogging in maldives ;) he was the first person to ever introduce it to me).

Not to also mention that back then DhivehiNet was a very small project run by only two people and you will experience some technical difficulties due to that - Dhivehinet did not have the flexibilies you see on commercial web hosting providers available on the Internet at that time.

After moving back to a local web server it was running smoothly we had allowed post and publish function for any contributor - there were funny posts, irritating post, totally invalid posts and those huge "unrelated" images, dont know what they meant - but it was fun.

The whole thing ran for something like 02 years, and blogger.com started having problems - back then blogger.com was run by a single guy.We couldnt login to blogger.com - and when we could we were not able to do any posts, and when the posts went through it didnt publish to our local web server.

After a week or so of unstable blogger.com - we saw that the guy who then ran blogger went bankcrupt; his hosting provider changed and that was the reason of unstable service. He had asked for every blogger.com user to contribute so that he could keep on running the service and pay for his expensive provider. There were some posts by him saying that he might stop blogger.com for good.

I think very few ppl help him back then, i didnt follow the news later on.

Later on also we didnt see a very stable blogger.com as we so before, we had problems publishing - Squidism then went dark. Some contributors used to ask me what happend. Well to be honest I later on wasnt following much on blogger.com

I believe blogger.com had gone a logn way and through lot of changes - It had become one of the most growing thing on the Internet recently.It had moved from a single man's thing to a well supported phenomenon, owned by google now.

I hope that blogger.com stays ONLINE and faciliate the bloggers to keep on blogging.
Ashraf should be awarded the "man of blogging, in Male" cox he kept on blogging on and on ;)

A supportive "Lazy" blogger. Amen to you PYRA & Evan William the real man behind Blogger.