Beebo Reflects Upon Ancient Blog A-list

Posted on April 4, 2006

Beebo has a reflective post that includes a list of the the most popular links posted by weblogs from September, 2000 (Metalog rankings). Many of the blogs on the list are now defunct but there are still a few blogs from back then that many people will know. Some of the familiars include Slashdot, Metafilter, Evhead.com, Rebecca Blood, PlasticBag.org, memepool and Scripting.com. Both Kotte.org and Megnut, who just got married, are also on list.

Only three of the blogs on Beebo's list from 2000 appear on the Technorati 100 today. Beebo says Boing Boing did exist back then but it only had 3 links. Keep in mind this was before political blogs even existed. Beebo explains:

There are no political blogs on the list-they hadn't been invented yet. Actually, I got the impression that many bloggers got a bit shirty when political blogs started up, and started getting popular-politics (and especially right-wing politics) wasn't what the blog-powered future was supposed to be about. Blogs were supposed to be personal, thoughtful, witty, sincere, not brash and combative.

Today, there are even some non-political blogs that are considered brash and combative.