Years ago, my Web site had a news section, called Weekly William News (named after the long-lost/lamented Weekly World News) that I updated manually. Essentially, it was a blog, but I didn’t call it that since I had not heard of such a thing yet. It also did not have any sort of content management system, so after working with even a primitive one professionally, I lost interest in updating pages through a text editor and FTP.
Anyway, eight years ago today, I put up this “post” on the proto-blog:
Of course, MLB waited another 4½ years to listen to me and I did not blog about D.C. baseball again until April 9, 2004 (fourth item), about a month after I started up William World News. Distinguished Senators, the first blog specifically about D.C. baseball, waited until June 2004.
