Blow out the candles, cut the cake and chug a beer – The Lost Ogle is officially 14-years-old! Now, who's ready to celebrate?!
Love it or hate it, this website turning 14 is pretty incredible, and to me, still a bit unbelievable. It's weird to see an off-the-cuff idea you had actually turn into something that's... something?
14 years (doing the same thing over and over and over again) feels like a long time and it is. I chalk the longevity up to my unique ability to be incompetent and distracted enough to keep this website from growing too big and crashing, yet just capable and talented enough to keep from drowning.
Well, at least for now.
Websites, and the Internet in general, age at about the same rate as dogs, so in all reality, we're closer to 90 than 14. That feels right. When we first got started, streaming services, social media, camera phones, and mobile technology were all in their infancy. I remember there were serious journalistic debates on whether or not blogs were good or bad, and if they would replace newspapers. It was like everyone was focused on the earthquake, unaware that a streaming, social media tsunami was racing towards the shore.