Bunnymad in 2002

How Bunnymad looked in 2002

Back in time

 

Screenshot of our first Blog (see end of this page for more)

When the Bunnymad blog started in 2002, nobody imagined that within the next twenty years, we’d all be able to snap a photo – or even a video – and share it almost instantaneously with the rest of the world, simply by tapping the screen on a phone (no cables attached!), and then, seconds later, view the comments and reactions of people who’d seen it!

In fact, when we started ‘blogging’, the term ‘blog’ was only a couple of years old. It derived from the word ‘weblog’ (coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997, to describe his process for ‘logging the web’); the term ‘blog’ was first used in May 1999 by Peter Merholz on his webpage peterme.com. Shortly after that, the word was used as a noun and a verb (to blog – to edit or post to a weblog) by Evan Williams at Pyra Labs, who also devised the term ‘blogger’ in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product.

So, uploading photos to a blog was a novel idea, and by no means straightforward. For the first few months of Bunnymad, before we bought our first digital camera (in May 2002), all the pictures we uploaded were either screenshots from footage filmed on a camcorder, or photos taken on a film camera and digitised using a flatbed scanner.

We had upgraded, by then, from dial-up internet access (does anyone else remember the horrendous noise of a modem back then?), to PIPEX ADSL, with a maximum upload speed of 512Kbs – ten times faster than our previous dial-up connection, but 2,500 times slower than what we have today! It’s a miracle we managed to share as many photos as we did.

Today, Bunnymad visitors can look back on our blog to posts dating back to 2011. Posts from the first decade are no longer available on our site, but we’ve provided some screenshots, below, courtesy of the incredible Wayback Machine internet archive.

In the first couple of years, we focussed on the relationship developing between Neroli and our new baby – ‘Baby Servant’. Click here for The Tale of a Princess and her Baby Servant