Brent Simmons’ blog inessential has, as of today, been online for twenty years. That seems an astounding feat to me… and then I remember: I have been blogging for 14 years myself, and could not possibly have been blogging when Simmons started. I started a Xanga sometime in mid-fall 2005, my freshman year of college. In July 2006, I set up the Blogger site that first mirrored that Xanga and then quickly replaced it. That site ran from then until 2010. In 2011, I worked primarily on other p...
