When you search Baidu for "which is the first blog website in China", you will get the answer: BlogChina (blogchina. com). Wikipedia describes that blog China was founded in 2004, when Liu Xiang won the Olympic Games, the United States occupied Iraq, Chen Shuibian was shot, and the "shock wave" worm virus swept the world.

However, today's article is not about it. To some extent, it is difficult for elderly netizens to agree that it is the first blog hosting site in China. Blog, the Chinese transliteration of Blog, the abbreviation of Web Log, is also translated into "network diary" in Chinese. It can be said that in the wild age of the Chinese Internet, websites that provide online diary functions can all be called blogs. In today's corner areas where the Internet is easy to be ignored, there are also a number of "ancient" blog networks working silently.

Roaming on the edge of the Internet, you may find " Dream Chaser Diary Network This diary website. When you open the home page, a retro flavor of "Web Three Swordsmen" design comes to you.

Dream Chaser Diary Network is special in that it was established in the millennium, the sixth year after China's access to the Internet. In the same year, Li Yanhong founded Baidu in Zhongguancun. Ma Huateng was worried about Tencent's life and death. Lei Jungang refused Ma Yun's request for financing. Zhang Yiming was in high school.

Since the beginning of the century, the wheel of time has rolled for 20 years, and the Chinese Internet has gone from barbarism to prosperity. This obscure diary network has never been touched by business and capital, and is still providing services continuously with the original intention of the webmaster and the maintenance of network volunteers. No one knows how many times its layout has been redesigned, let alone how many times the webmaster has changed the server room in the past 20 years. Facts have proved that compared with private operation, commercial operation is not so smart: many commercial operation sites have seen high-rise buildings, banquet guests and collapsed buildings. Over the past 20 years, how many websites have been forgotten and abandoned, and how many websites have gone to normal or abnormal death.
Even because of the increasingly strict network censorship, the Chinese Internet has appeared a certain data gap. Several famous communities, such as Post Bar, Tianya, Hupu, and Blog Bus, have seen a large area of historical posts disappear. Tudou, a popular Chinese video website for many years, once integrated numerous elite video and audio creations. After being acquired by Alibaba, the data was gradually lost. Dream Chaser Diary Network has kept all the data since the establishment of the website silently, and now you can still register users or publish diaries normally.

The latest diary of the website was released yesterday (October 9, 2020), which indicates that the diary website does not exist in name. It even remembers the birthday of each member and publishes the user name of the birthday on the "Today's Birthday List". According to the current aesthetics, the table layout is quite "crude", but it was deliberately reflected in those years.

You can click on the homepage of several users who still maintain frequent updates. Most of them have persisted for more than 10 years. Open their historical diaries at random. There were once trivial complaints about life, comments on the current situation of world politics, unpublished youth literature, and literary and artistic love poems of adolescent girls. Over the past 20 years, adolescent girls have become the mothers of two children, college students who love football have become the leaders of the municipal bureau, and retired old men in their 60s have become very old. Users have gone through different life paths, but the common ground of these people is that their past stories are hidden here.

Among many users who keep updating, a user ID called " Laolu 」。 From the personal data, this user registered in 2001 and has kept a diary for more than 19 years.

More striking is that the user was born in 1936, the 24th year of the Republic of China. In that year, Lu Xun died, and Zhang Xueliang launched the "Xi'an Incident" to demand Chiang Kai shek to unite with the Communist Party to resist Japan. When he registered Diary Net, he was 65 years old. After nearly 20 years of online diary writing, he is now 84 years old. You should know that the Internet has changed a lot in the past 20 years. It is not easy to remember this private land as if it were a vegetable garden. If you want to read the Don's diary, you can click on the personal homepage above. (Journal interface needs to register an account and log in)

In this view, Diary and users are mutually successful: users' insistence on writing has given the website the impetus to continue its operation, and the website's survival has slowly left behind this group of most loyal users.

I would like to express my respect for "Dream Chaser Diary Network" and users who insist on writing.