The picture above is my original computer setup when I started blogging back in 2003. I’m trying to remember why I had both a Mac and a PC setup but I can’t seem to figure it out.
I’ve got a pretty organized digital photo archive that dates back to the 90s when I first started scanning pictures, and so it’s fairly easy for me to pull up an old photo from a specific time period. I love digging up old photos since it’s always fascinating to see what kind of tech I had back then since I was fairly geeky. The photo above was my portable set up back then, my 12inch Apple iBook, a Sony Ericsson T68i phone and a Palm Tungsten T personal digital assistant (PDA).
I also found the photo above from the same time period but featured my Sony CLIÉ PDA, my original Apple iPod with a Firewire port, my iOGEAR Bluetooth to USB adapter and my T68i phone again. The Bluetooth adapter allowed me to connect my laptop to my phone to get online, something unheard of back then but ordinary today. The photo below is when I first sucessfuly got online from my laptop using my phone’s internet. I remember I took this shot parked near the Kuwait Towers, the date of the photo is February 18th, 2003 which is 12 days after my first blog post ever.
Good times!
34 replies on “17 Years Blogging Anniversary”
Thank you for blogging Mark. I have been reading your blog since I was 12 and I am 23 today. It’s been a fun 11 years. Keep going!
Hey Mark, HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY, I think I have been reading since 2008, since I left to college and your blog reminded me of home. Thanks man! Keep it coming man!
Happy Birthday 248am,
and the best blog ever since ! keep it up mate ! all the best !
that means I have checked it daily for 6,205 days lol !
and if u ever wanna sell that oldschool ipod let me know 🙂
sold it back in the mid 2000’s for KD70 (still have a copy of the flyer i had hung up at sultan center)
Happy Blogiversary Mark. 248am has always been a top read. Keep up the awesome work. Keep Blogging!!
Happy Anniversary Mark. Thanks for all those entertainment, tips and interesting events that happening in Kuwait.
Good times for you and for us Mark Happy Anniversary
this is awesome Mark, back in 2003 in Nigeria, We were just getting to experience the use of GSM for the very first time, and internet was only possible through ISP and the usual bulk installations. This is a good walk down the memory lane
Inshallah 17 more years to come!
fmahb
Also, I spot the Alcatel’s ‘Stingray’ modem on top of the PC .. good times.
yeah can’t remember how fast my internet was then maybe 256KB/s or tops 1Mbps. I remember before this I had Shownet which I think was 1Mbps.
Happy anniversary Mark.. Been a reader for a very long time.
How about you share some more of the huge photo archive you have.. Anything that you’d like to share, photos of Kuwait, events that happens before, old gadget and cars you drive.. That would be amazing.
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Happy birthday and thank you Mark, your dedication is very inspiring, you are the only website i check manually everyday.
Happy Anniversary Mark. thank you for being the one constant in this ever changing landscape we call life . Been a loyal reader for the last 15 hopefully will remain for another 15
thanks everyone for still coming here even though my posts have dwindled down to just two a day, my day job occupies 90% of my life right now.
So how many posts did you do on a day back when you started? I think i religiously started reading your blog from 2013. Congrats on doing this for 17 years!
5-6 but originally they weren’t all about kuwait. then it became a stable 3 posts a day kuwait related and the past 1 year its dropped down to 2.
Wow…
Been a reader since 2009 iirc. I love your blog. Congratulations on the anniversary!
Happy Anniversary Mark! I moved to Canada in 2003, found your blog and reading ever since. I was in Grad school then. Lots of change in last 17 years. Here is to the next 17 years !
gosh.. that Intellimouse! best mouse ever!
Happy Anniversary Mark!
Happy anniversary !!
Thanks for sharing all things about kuwait , it help lots of people .
The way of tune of your blogging is like inspiration and easy to read & increase knowledge.
You make consistency of your work ,when you visited out of country amazing.
All the best for your personal and professional life , what you want in your life you achieve in this 2020. Best of luck.
I wonder if you still have those monitors around🤔 I’d probably nab them from you.
Also, been reading since 2008. Not planning on stopping any time soon.
Haha no they’re long gone
What’s something you wanted to do with the blog but never got to do?
Fix the design 😭 classifieds section needs a facelift and there are a ton of software issues with it, kuwestions needs a facelift as well to match the main page. Oh and events section needs improvement.
Happy Anniversary Mark!
I’ve been a reader since 2003, I Believe the journey starts with your Miskan blog before 248AM era.
I used to be an alien in a university and your blog was a window to a an aliens community back then 😛
Qhate.com then Moblogging from Kuwait and then Miskan and then 248AM 😁
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!
I never thought of it on how time passes so fast… i started reading your blog since 2007 where i was only 14 now 26 and married where many of the places i took my wife were from your recommendation.
THX A LOT MARK
Thanks!
Eh Mark… Happy 17th Years of Blogging! 🙂
Have you ever think of adding some vlog on your blog? 😀
Don’t stop