In 1999 when I started my first blog at geocities.com there weren't auto-coders in place which is called here at blogspot now (compose) as opposed to "HTML". If you cannot program in HTML effectively yet it is good to use "compose" mode because it's much easier to use than HTML (unless you are already an HTML programmer either professionally or as a hobbie. I taught myself HTML myself in the 1990s by taking apart a yahoo.com site. I copied it and then changed the parmeters of the variables to see what that would do. You could easily do stuff like this in Windows 95 which was one of the earlier operating systems one could use then in the 1990s.
This is how I taught myself HTML (Hypertext Markup language) It was invented specifically for the World Wide web to be used by primarily then home computers but also by mainframes in that era before cell phones or smart phones or tablets like the Ipad and things like this. So, as new devices were created they had to be compatible with HTML programming to run text and pictures off the internet or sounds off the Internet then.
So, on my geocities site which I had from 1999 until 2007 when I started this site I also bought a site at Yahoo.com who had bought geocities before they got rid of it and transferred as much of my stuff from geocities site as I could to the dragonofcompassion.com site I bought there and still have today. However, I have sort of forgotten how to access this site to add new information over the years and can't usually add to this one anymore because time passes, you know?
I started another site with my daughter besides intuitivefred888 and "The Spiritual Path) both at blogger.com too. However, it was too advanced a technology for me to handle at this stage of my life in learning new things to be effective for me at least because I will be 75 this month.
I think my peak knowledge about computers peaked somewhere between 2005 and 2015 I would say. Now I try to learn as little as possible about new operating systems generally speaking simply because I have learned somewhere between 10 and 20 or more operating systems or more as they evolved over the years and realized that learning a new operating system ever 6 months or year was sort of a waste of time for me after 10 or 20 evolutions of technology or more since the 1950s and 1960s when I started to program computers.
However, I still make Links pages using HTML here at this site. And I have refined making a Links page down to 20 minutes to 1/2 hour simply because I use the copy and paste directly into the templates of the URLs and the Link text spaces. This is incredibly quick doing it this way.
Also, I copy the template lines of the new paragraph and the HREF lines of code as blank code as many times as I need to also using copy and paste in the Edit function in most browsers you might use up usually at the upper left of your screens.
I was saying before it is likely that my readership has now gone beyond 10 million views simply because the counters didn't use to go beyond 2 or 2.5 million views and kept starting over with me. So, I would estimate my views around 10 million at this point because from about 2011 to 2017 the views were exponential and in 2017 alone I had 100,000 visits per month ongoing that year alone. So, views really pile up when people get interested in your site. But, it also is a lot of work and as you age this is sometimes too much to expect of yourself as you go further and futher into life and aging.
So far, since I almost died of a heart virus for 9 months in 1998 and 1999 I was forced to retire then by my wife who didn't want me to die then because our daughter was only 2 1/2 years old (my youngest) then in 1998. So, that means I have been retired ever since then which is amazing in itself for me to think about. So, basically now I have had around 25 years or so to write and to pray and to share what I thought might help mankind in various ways and sort of created my own personal Creation story that comes from my direct experience that I shared with all of you whenever I could do it properly.
By God's Grace
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