Seventeen years ago today, I got a fresh cup of coffee from the kitchen, wandered into the den of our condo in Arlington, Virginia, and logged onto my email to find that our Internet service provider — PSI.Net — was offering five megabytes of free space to set up a personal web page.
Not being one to waste a freebie, I wrote a 500-word essay about the state of things in Washington, titled it “Capitol Hill Blue,” and posted it to the web.
That’s how this whole thing started on October 1, 1994.
PSI.Net is long gone. So are a lot of things that made the Internet such a wild frontier back on those days. The only other site offering political news on the web on October 1, 1994, was Nando.Net, a production of the Raleigh, NC, News & Observer. Nando.Net is gone too. Capitol Hill Blue survives today as the longest-running political news site on the World Wide Web.
So it’s our birthday.
Happy Birthday to us.
8 thoughts on “Still here after all these years”
Lyrics from Teenagers by My Chemical Romance
Happy Birthday from one of your biggest critics and fans.
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite teenagers! 🙂
No one is going to solve all of the worlds problems, but it is really nice to know that someone put in the effort to make it a little better.
Nice achievement. Congrats.
Happy Birthday CHB! Thanks goes to our site host for providing a watering hole for shared opinions concerning news events of the day.
Also your extreme patience is appreciated when participants overstep themselves by writing something stupid and/or irritating including myself at times. 😀
Long live CHB…!
Carl Nemo **==
What a trip! What an education. Thanks to CHB, no one any longer has to ask what is wrong with this country. Congrads on your success and happy birthday. I hope the future will promote solutions and proposals. Keep up the good work. I’m proud to know ya.
Happy Birthday CHB, and many, many, many more to come.
Happy Birthday! I hope that CHB has many more.
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