So I learned yesterday that Diaryland is still very much alive. Well.... it still exists, anyway.
Obviously I immediately ran to see what I could do with that information, and the answer was, not a lot.
Unless you remember your original login info, or still have access to your email account from those days, you're not getting in to the member's area. Creating a new login just redirects to the sign in page, so that was a bust. I was able to find a couple diaries I followed in 2002-2005 by typing in the direct URL (and was THAT ever a nostalgia trip!) but the directory is less than useful. Although the "recently updated" panel seems to be live and functional, so you could always find new diaries to read.
Anyway, I spent too much time reading through one old diary, that I really had no business reading as a teenager, and it made me really miss the early 2000s era internet, where you could actually rely on an assumption of privacy and anonymity while spilling your deepest darkest all across the internet. I think that's why I keep coming back to Tumblr, because it's the only website left where it's not weird if you don't show your face or give out your real name or location but can build an online presence with as much or as little interaction as you want.
Seriously considering opening a new tumblr account to use as a totally anonymous journal/diary style blog. Just for fun. It might help me to get out of my journaling slump, where everything feels either too vulnerable or too vapid to record and I haven't been able to bring myself to the page.
