This week I noticed a little milestone; my current iteration of website logs had clicked over to 10 years’ worth of accumulated statistics.
While I’ve been self-hosting websites since 2002, it wasn’t until 2015 that I started making a conscious effort to backup and retain web logs during server reinstalls and migrations.
To create statistics from these logs, I’ve been using Analog since around 2004. A simple parser that dates back to the early days of the internet and remains wholly unchanged for many decades.
This milestone prompted a nostalgia dive into the archives to see how far back I can go, uncovering Analog output from 2004, and an historic look on how the internet has changed over the last 20 years…
