Silver Jubilee

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The Domain of Doxos is 25 Years Old. Which makes me feel old, well, older actually. In 1998 (which is a whole other century) all the cool kids were getting domains so I bought one. Of course I wanted a Dot Com because all the other Dot Things were silly. Doxos comes from the Greek meaning “praise” “worship” or “glory”. It can, evidently, also mean “opinion” or “choice”. It’s used in Greek LXX to translate the Hebrew word Kavod. It gives us the word “doxology”, “orthodox”. It seemed like a cool word to use for my domain – although at the time I was going for “I can make my own choices, $%^&!” It has, over the course of the years meant “heterodox” and then “orthodox”. Now… it’s my domain name. I’m probably not much good at any other the other things, but I still write “pretentious blathering prose”. That’s a critique of my style from Writing Workshop in college. I still want it on a T-Shirt.

Doxos was a journal before blogging was even a software, but I wasn’t the first person to do so – I copied this guy named David who ran something called “PlanetSoma” back then. He put his journal on the front page and I thought, Well, that’s cool. Manually coding a journal, with a back archive was a bit of a pain, so when Blogger came out, I took it in. It’s been downhill since then.

I doubt any of my readership from 1998 is still around, other than my mother. But there we are.