April 16, 2002

  • The Anciently Updated List


     


    Here is the ancient, founding key, the Rosetta Stone, to the genesis of Xanga  as we know it.


      


    Earlier yesterday in  a blog, vickyvix asked who had the very first post on Xanga?


     


    She had reference to an 3.5 year-old or so blog, Jewel, that never posted, but just registered.  But it’s common knowledge to us Xangarelics that John,  Genius, et. al., were around and playing with aliases and setup sites long before Xanga ever went public.   Thus Jewel (not to be confused with the later Jewels who was very popular) appears to be a spoof or alias in the developing stage.  So, if not Jewel, when did the real public first hit Xanga?  What was the first post on the first day?


     


    It may be exactly impossible to say .  But if you go to the page I indicated above, you will see that pre- and post- the two shadows named JaneDoe and JaneDoe1, there is a radical temporal rift as broad as Noah’s parting of the Red Sea.  All the  blogs above The JaneDoes were ones first created and last published upon on 12/18/1999 .  And they are chronologically-sorted forward in a continuity all the way until today.  Below the JaneDoes, all the posts are seemingly unpublished, often established at later chronological times and randomly scattered —not well-sorted—even into the future.  But JaneDoe and JD1 published at the very midpoint of this temporal discontinuity, seemingly in their own box, around mid-December. Yet their identities were ones established much earlier (7/99) than those that follow them upon 12/18.  It’s as if Jane Doe and JD1 were the last “test units”  who, though created much earlier, were first  tested for operationality just before the initial public roll-out on 12/18, retired, and succeeded by the first true Xanga pioneers of 12/18, some of whom we witness here never themselves making it beyond their first posts. 


     


    Note: This is *The Newly Updated List* meaning that this was the very last time these Xanga pioneers wrote.  There are some, however, like David, who came on the 18th and are still around today.   You will not find them on this listing of the Anciently Updated Page because they yet persist.

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