Blort is where I found my way in here from, all those years ago, and its cheese has remained easily twice the fencepost the whole time. Smock on! posted by flabdablet at 12:36 AM on September 26 [5 favorites]
Congratulations Blort, everlasting indeed.
A reminder of a better, pre-platformised web, the space untouched from the tectonic plates of Facebook and Google intersecting. Ecosystems of unique blogroll species, vestigial rss links, and the last memories of things oblortorated by the eternal furrowing of web space.
My university had it listed as ¡®dangerous¡¯ content and I made them unblock it, so that its visitor might double. posted by davemee at 1:29 AM on September 26 [12 favorites]
Open up your phone, don't need to feel alone
You can always go to Everlasting Blort
There's no other site, to make you feel alright
Nothing is quite like Everlasting Blort
From the very start, open up your heart
Feel that you're part of Everlasting Blort
Need a Blort to last forever
Need a Blort to last forever posted by Kattullus at 1:37 AM on September 26 [11 favorites]
May the zort be yours forever. ¡®Unique¡¯ is an overused word these days, but I¡¯m going to use it and add ¡®indispensable¡¯. posted by Phanx at 2:27 AM on September 26 [3 favorites]
Blort is where I found my way in here from, all those years ago
and I'd found Blort as a result of being in a phase of making up silly words and web searching them for fun. blort.meepzorp.com was the first search result for "blort", and finding my own silly word attached to an even sillier one told me instantly that these were Quality People.
Sadly, the first search result for that word is now a sales pitch for an AI content farming tool that I will absolutely not be linking here. posted by flabdablet at 2:50 AM on September 26 [3 favorites]
(NOTE: blort does not seem to be accessible from all countries. I assume that's a GDPR issue.) posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 2:59 AM on September 26 [1 favorite]
Geez, Blort has been blogging longer than I have. And still going, unlike many of the people who inspired me to start a blog. posted by tommasz at 3:51 AM on September 26 [3 favorites]
I will put a fish in my pants in honor of the anniversary. posted by rikschell at 5:04 AM on September 26 [5 favorites]
I'd found Blort as a result of being in a phase of making up silly words and web searching them for fun
Went looking through the page source for a feed address, found none, but did find I disagree with Romeo Rose about Fractal Audio, so I guess that counts as a happy birthday, somehow. posted by scruss at 7:55 AM on September 26 [3 favorites]
Here's to all the websites Blort has linked, and all the sites Metafilter has linked, and all the people who are here, have been here, and will come by in the future.
Nothing lasts forever, but while we're around we can help make these little things, and prop up the good things made by others, like a human pyramid. A scheme we can all believe in.
As time passes and loss creeps up on me, and on all of us, and we're surrounded by stupid deception and horrible machines, we should all always remember: we are the real internet. posted by JHarris at 8:04 AM on September 26 [7 favorites]
Love the Blort. Congrats on the anniversary, Madamjujujive. posted by hoodrich at 8:36 AM on September 26 [3 favorites]
Thank you growabrain, this is deep praise indeed from someone who hosted my favorite blog ever.
But I did not found or start blort, it is a labor of love, a hand-rolled site built from scratch by the inimitable quonsar, who still keeps the trains running. He generously welcomed me when I started sending him strange or curious things. Any reasonable person might have gotten sick of it long ago, but I am a link hoarder and persist, albeit sometimes sporadically.
The web was so much fun in the early days before social media, seo, and mass commercialization.
Thank you all for such nice comments and support over the years, I appreciate it. I know I have been terrible about participating here, but Mefi and Mefites continue to mean so much to me.
ps - insert a clever name, I do think it is possible that we are blocking a few entire countries due to a huge influx of spammers and bad actors. I'll hae to talk to q about that. posted by madamjujujive at 11:07 AM on September 26 [14 favorites]
I have it from a nebulously reliable source that once upon a time long long ago quonsar retrieved information on the locus of hacker nests, from where he cannot recall, and set countries and vast slabs of IP ranges containing such to be denied based on that information plus his own personal prejudices. Perhaps it is time to revisit said policy, however the SmockSayer opens his ears not to myself but has been known to respond to intense prayer: "Rex Unto Thy Cleeb and thou shalt have Blort Everlasting, Uhmen.
Copiously bewailing all your expectancies, I remain TheSmockSayerInYourGondola posted by pee tape at 12:11 PM on September 26 [3 favorites]
I didn't know about this. I'm impressed. posted by ovvl at 1:43 PM on September 26
Thanks for the post growabrain. I have been in desperate need of a website like that. And now I know that there was a porno made featuring Daleks. Awesome. posted by MrNoodlePants at 8:50 AM on September 27 [2 favorites]
Oh, my. I'd forgotten all about this! Once I would hit the blort daily, and somehow I let it pass by the wayside. How did this happen? After all, the cheese was always twice the fencepost.
Those were the days of the dancing baby and cheezburger, back when fark and beyond blackstump and hampster dance were the catsballz. Ah yes.
They are all still out there, but I have apparently mooooved on. Perhaps it's time for a return to our roots. posted by BlueHorse at 4:42 PM on September 27 [1 favorite]
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