I've been working with an AI tool (GLM 5.2 inside Charm Crush) to raid the Internet Archive for all my old blog posts. I started blogging back in 1999, before the term was even really widespread.
I've used a bunch of different platforms:
- Blosxom (1999-2006)
- Travel diary (hand coded in Perl) (2000-2001)
- Blogger (briefly)
- Posterous (2006-2013)
- Posthaven (2013-2026)
- Self-hosted using Sveltia CMS which means I can manage it all in Github
Each time I moved, I attempted to import all the history but wasn't terribly careful about it all. So content got lost or given the wrong datestamps.
The AI managed to recover 21 posts but corrected the dates on 152. Nice!
I'll work on recovering some more of the images and videos now, and maybe even get some archived versions of the old site designs.
Hat tip to Damion who gave me the idea.