Miraz
Miraz
Remember when blogs were fussily called weblogs? While checking posts from my now defunct KnowIt blog I spotted this mention of MarsEdit 1.0 from 11 December 2004: Ranchero Software's MarsEdit 1.0 … is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email—with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support. It works with various weblog systems: Blosxom, Conversant, Manila, Movable Type, Radio UserLand, TypePad, WordPress, and others. Congratulations must go to Brent Simmons who has released Mars Edit today after a period of thorough development and bet... miraz.me
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jeroensangers
jeroensangers

@Miraz I remember when blogs were called “web logs” 😀 Though not a user of MarsEdit anymore, I loved that app.

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Miraz
Miraz

@jeroensangers A while ago, eh!

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maique
maique

@Miraz Some still call them weblogs… 🙂

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Miraz
Miraz

@maique LOL

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jeroensangers
jeroensangers

@Miraz Oh yes! I still remember hearing someone on the radio explain how he kept a public log of all the web sites he discovered and visited, and thinking “hey, I do the same thing on my web!”

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gregmoore
gregmoore

@Miraz I also remember reading it as "We Blog" or "We Blogs" during that fad. 😂

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odd
odd

@gregmoore Hahaha! 😂 Makes me remember when I first saw the word “meme”, I thought it was “meh-meh”, (French-like). @Miraz

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gregmoore
gregmoore

@odd I did similar, asking a work colleague what a "Mee-mee" was.

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artkavanagh
artkavanagh

@odd @gregmoore Ce n’est pas évident, quand même.

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khurtwilliams
khurtwilliams

@Miraz also note the use of Mac OS X, now just macOS.

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odd
odd

@artkavanagh I had to use computational translation to get that, but you’re right.

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khurtwilliams
khurtwilliams

@Miraz I don’t remember when I first used MarsEdit but it was a very long time ago.

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Miraz
Miraz

@khurtwilliams Good to know it's been around almost 20 years now. It's saved me loads of hair pulling and hundreds, maybe thousands of hours.

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jayeless
jayeless

@odd @gregmoore During my teaching degree, I once had to attend a lecture on using "mee-mees" in lessons to increase students' engagement (...I think). The fact that this guest lecturer whose field was supposedly social media culture was pronouncing the word that way left me unable to take them seriously... 🙁

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Miraz
Miraz

@jayeless @odd @gregmoore I was part of a meeting once where a senior teacher of French kept pronouncing resumés (as in CVs) as 'resumes' — the English word for continuing. Drove me batty!

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gregmoore
gregmoore

@jayeless @Miraz Haha 😆 Neither of those speakers would instill much confidence.

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odd
odd

@jayeless I can see that. Not a very organic approach. I remember my boss at the time used to have “funny pictures/videos from the web” in presentations for developers, but this mostly predated memes, I think. There were no text on the images.

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odd
odd

@Miraz Haha! 😂

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