Aaron Landry

This is my 1,000th post on this site.

This evening I have put my Hiptop3 on eBay. I’ll now live off of a basic Nokia 6610 for awhile. Here’s a bit of my blogging history:

I started blogging not long after the launch of blogger.com in 2000. It was an ugly page that I hosted off of my slow DSL connection running Apache on Windows 98 (yeah, I know) with content that would remind people of a kid getting a LiveJournal account for the first time. I quit that, deleted all the content and decided for the most part it was a waste of time. Of course, at that time in my life there were a lot of changes and I decided to run off to Bulgaria for a short bit as well as follow the Flaming Lips around the UK a couple times amongst a few other things.

The original hiptop in 2002 was my dream come true: A mobile phone that has an actual data connection, POP email, AOL Instant Messenger and a QWERTY keyboard. It was affordable and didn’t require all the corporate back-end junk that the Blackberry devices at the time needed. I got a hiptop right after they came out.

I started “blogging” again after I found Mike Popovic’s Hiptop Nation (my first post). I decided that I wouldn’t write much of anything; I can just post random low-resolution 120×90 photos directly from my device, to a website and not say much else… all without using a computer. This was really quite cutting edge in 2002! I then also joined up with a few other mobloggers when SKHOLLA started on April 1st, 2003 (my first post). These two sites over the years became the base of a rather tight but widely spread community where we all saw tiny daily pictorial insights into each other’s lives. Through different parties and numerous travels many of us have met now each other. I was even featured as the official “hip user” at hiptop.com back in May 2005.

I started migrating most of my stuff to this site a couple years ago and continued to religiously post to both community moblogs up until today.

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I’ve had internet connectivity on my hip for over 4 years. I’ve been posting low resolution photos from a device for just as long, even after it stopped being cool 3 years ago!

Now I’m taking a break. I’m not entirely sure what the new content of this site will be, but I’m not going to stop publishing. I’ll also likely be getting the internet back at my fingertips in June. Hopefully I will survive until then.

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A shout-out to some of the many people I’ve met over the years through the hiptop community… some of them now good friends: George, Kale, Rick, Ed, Chris, Jonathan, Ben, Jenn, Mike, James, Kim, Ernie, Jake, Jim, Brendan, Brian, Michael, Shelly, Shaun, Sami, Walter, and more… and to the people I haven’t met yet, but am sure I will at some point: Mike, Matt, Regan, Lori and Heidi.