Jim Howard
 
Age: 
68

Gender: 
M

Member Since: 
12/16/2006

Profile Views: 
8,110

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Last Login: 
11/22/2009

Location:
Fort Worth, TX
My Mood:  
Cool
General Information
Status: 
Single

Ethnicity: 
Caucasian

Religion: 
Catholic

Education: 
Some College

Occupation: 
Retired

Hometown:
Fort Worth

Language:
English

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About Me
I am a 67 year old white male. I worked hospital security for 30 years, was a police officer, an EMT and when I started out in life a welder/boilermaker.
I am Here for: 
I am using Stickam to send out video on my blog and web sites. It works out very well. I been single a long time but if I met the right woman it would be nice but I am not looking. I will wait for her to find me.

Hobbies: 
Amateur (Ham) radio, photography, Computers, Internet, Movies and TV.

Favorite Movies: 
Saint Ralph, Beautiful Girls, Conrack, Lucas, My Dog Skip, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Walkabout, We're No Angles and many others.

Favorite TV Shows: 
Little People, Big World

Favorite Music: 
I like Trance or Techo Music.

Favorite Books: 
Computer books

I Love: 
Beach

I Hate: 
Snow and Ice
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Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache are writers for CNET News.Com and they have written a story called "Blogs turn 10--who's the father?" The subject of the story is "Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It's just not quite clear who."

They list a lot of names and some dates. You will not find the name "Jim Howard" listed and you will not find June of 1982.

"...Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the "founding father of personal blogging"?..."

If you check out the story they have a box with "Blogs: The evolution" and they have January 1994 Justin Hall begins compiling lists of links at his site. I started doing that in June of 1982! I only listed local sites so the list only had about 4 sites, for Kansas City, listed. I did that for years and years until a local "SysOp" organization took over the project. I even did linking and this is before there was a world wide web. (The www started in 1995 if I remember correct.) So around 1983 or 1984 people could dial into my bulletin board system at 300 baud or 1200 baud and connect with Howard's Notebook and find a list of other sites and click on it and dial out via my other modem and phone line and connect with the other site.

In March of 1984 Ric Manning wrote in "Link-Up" magazine about my site. Part of what Ric says is; "...One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard's fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks..."
Folks I say that was a blog and that was the birth of ShowMeBlog.

The CNET story list the next date on the evolution list as January 1995 with Carolyn Burke publishes her first entry for Carolyn's Diary.
Well friends I am happy she started to blog but what took her 11 years? I had been doing a blog for 11 years at the point in time.

I could go on looking at the "evolution" list but what is the point?

If your looking for the someone who created the very first Web log well you found him here. If your wondering where it was created and started it all started in Belton, Missouri in June of 1982.

It began in June of 1982 and it is still going. For many years I called it Howard's Notebook and it is still on line but I blog now under the name of "ShowMeBlog.

I am not looking to take credit away from any of the other people. They may have been out their doing their thing and that is great. I just feel that the history should be clear.

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Walking to the Dollar Plus Store in Fort Worth
Sun Nov 15 00:46:28 GMT 2009
Just a little walk to the dollar store to pick up a couple of items. This is in Fort Worth (TX) on my second day of living in Fort Worth.
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View of apartment and unboxing of a box
Sat Nov 14 22:40:33 GMT 2009
This is a view of my new apartment on November 14, 2009 and on the day two boxes came USPS to my apartment. One box is missing at this time and I hope it turns up soon. In this video you get a look at my apartment and some of the stuff in the big box that came today.
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My First Look at My New Apartment
Sat Nov 14 22:12:27 GMT 2009
This is my first look at my new apartment in Fort Worth TX. I have moved from Miami FL and rented this apartment without seeing it. This is my first look at the place after flying into Fort Worth on Friday 13th of November 2009. True is not very interesting but I have a blog and the readers of it will be interested in seeing my new place.
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Goodbye Miami
Wed Oct 21 15:20:18 GMT 2009
One of my last videos from Miami (FL). I am moving in a few weeks to Fort Worth (TX). If you live in Fort Worth PLEASE tell me something good about Fort Worth. This video was made with my Casio Exilim EX-Z1080 and I used the AVS Video Editor on it.
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My Comments on Boy Balloon Incident
Fri Oct 16 20:03:53 GMT 2009
Here is my feelings about the "Boy in the Balloon" incident. Or is it a hoax?
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Howard's Notebook
Bedframe today and bed tomorrow
Wed Nov 25 03:39:27 GMT 2009


SNAP (aka food stamps) Program
Tue Nov 24 11:24:09 GMT 2009


I got my new chair today
Tue Nov 24 02:19:11 GMT 2009


Find A Grave
Tue Nov 24 02:10:34 GMT 2009


Fog and 47 in Fort Worth
Mon Nov 23 12:12:27 GMT 2009


Howard's Notebook
Bedframe today and bed tomorrow
Wed Nov 25 03:39:27 GMT 2009


SNAP (aka food stamps) Program
Tue Nov 24 11:24:09 GMT 2009


I got my new chair today
Tue Nov 24 02:19:11 GMT 2009


Find A Grave
Tue Nov 24 02:10:34 GMT 2009


Fog and 47 in Fort Worth
Mon Nov 23 12:12:27 GMT 2009


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Tue Jul 15 04:36:11 GMT 2008


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First Video of Apartment
Sat Nov 14 22:27:26 GMT 2009


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rukidding
 

What is you channel name on youtube? I will play a video and find out OK!