When I first registered the domain Kitta.net and started blogging, I used Greymatter. If you know what Greymatter was, you probably laughed and need to start using retinol; if you don’t, be glad that you never had to use it and setting up a blog these days is as easy as a 5-minute install or signing up for Tumblr.
I used it for about a year before switching to B2/Cafelog, then WordPress version 0.71, which was released in June 2003, and I have been using WordPress for over 21 years. The reason why I switched was due to a critical database error, which turned all my former Greymatter-run blog posts into mush. For years I thought the mush was unretrievable, until recently when I went way back, way way back, using the Way Back Machine and found all the old blog posts that I assumed were lost forever in the ether of the internet.
I found funny entries, poorly written entries, whiny entries and entries which sparked memories. Amongst them all, I found my first ever blog post at Kitta.net, posted when I moved from a shared host on a subdomain to my very own domain.
Date: 07/25/2002
Entry: “Welcome (back) to greymatter”After a lot of waiting…
Swearing, things not working, domain registrations not happening – and basically things going wrong. My site, kitta.net, is now online.
*sighs in relief*
Anyways, I hope you like my site. There are still some content I need to do, like photos, hosting and all that. I wont even try to do it tonight, I’m dead – I have to go out soon too, my brother wants me to buy him some fudge hair dye. He wants red, green and blue streaks in his hair. I’m gonna steal some of the red and do some in mine =) Well, leave me a comment or a tag, I wanna know what you all think. Thankx everyone.
P.S. there’s 8 days till my birthday, and I still have no idea what I’m doing for it lol.
Kitta xoxox
I know. It was a masterpiece. I would have been around 21 at the time, and my use of ‘x’ instead of ‘s’ in thanks makes adult me cringe.
And I did eventually dye my hair red and it’s also currently red.
Kitta.net 