My family got it’s first computer in August 1995. All I remember is that is was a pentium something, it was bought in Bunbury, WA, and we played the golf game, Need for Speed, Patience, Jezzball and it had Encarta.
I think we got internet at home in about 1997 and I probably got Hotmail around that time, but it could have been a lot later. I definetly had Hotmail in 2000. This was all in The Netherlands. I emailed with friends in Australia.
After our holiday in Australia in 2000, Pascal made a website about our travels. I only typed out the text. Pascal was working as a graphic designer at this stage, and started building and designing more and more websites.
Later around 2004 Pascal made me a website for an ‘Immigration FAQ’. I wrote the text for this in Adobe Golive, but didn’t do anything else. In July 2004 we made a website for our move to Australia, I only wrote the text, and we didn’t update this after August 04.
In March 2005 I discovered blogs. I decided to start a Blogger blog almost immediately, to keep friends and family updated about our life in Australia. I back posted back to July 2004, and added an ‘autobiography’.
On 15 November 2005 I got a Flickr pro account. I had to get a friend to buy it for me, as I didn’t have a paypal account set up yet. Before that I’d had a free flickr account for a few months, and previously I’d used Imagestation to store and share all our photos for friends and family, and Photobucket a bit for putting photos on forums.
On 29 January 2006 I wrote the following entry at 43 things:
I�d like to change over from Blogger to Movable Type one day, with own domain name etc. Not yet though, and don�t want to confuse relatives too much by changing address again�. And I have to figure it all out yet, though I think I already do well by changing my template in blogger.
I was still quite confused then though, the title of the entry was ‘WordPress’, but I was talking about Movable Type!
On 31 March 2006 I registered my first domain name, setup WordPress on it (all with a bit of Pascal’s help) and imported all my Blogger posts. My main reasons were categories, more control and an own domain name.
I think it was in April 2006 I first had the idea for Enjoy Perth!, and set it up a free account on WordPress.com. It only took a few days before I decided I needed a domain name, just in case I was to become serious with it, I didn’t want to have to move it again!
On 11 April 2006 I setup WordPress on http://www.enjoyperth.net
On 3 May 06 I created a Gmail account for Enjoy Perth! On 18 May I sent out an email to friends and family ‘launching’ the blog, and asking for feedback. None was recieved, though I wasn’t surprised as none were/are really into blogging!
At the end of May 2006 I began making my blog ‘public’, listing it in seach engines, blog listings and forums.
On 1 July 06 I setup WordPress on http://kids.enjoyperth.net and this blog, and launched Kids Enjoy Perth! around 9 July.
And so it continues……
