Where have all the entries gone?

[hmpf]

I tried to find my entries from 2001, which is - I think - the year I started blogging here, and I can't seem to access them. The calendar only reaches back to the beginning of 2002. Yet in the FAQ it says that old entries are kept indefinitely.

Is there a trick to accessing entries that are older than two years?

EDIT: err, never mind. According to LJ I've only been here since January 2002. Which is a bit strange, because the very first entry seems to be a Two Towers review, and I can't imagine that to be my first ever entry, especially since it is *followed* by what I remember to be my first ever entry, titled "What am I going to do with this site?", but apparently my memories wrong and I really started my LJ - appropriately enough - with a LotR entry *g*

EDIT: wait a sec. A Two Towers review in *January 2002*?!? I must be prescient!

Something here is a bit fishy, methinks.

Comments

[melee187.livejournal.com]

Good way to begin if you ask me.

Yeah, but it can't be right, I just realised.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Just look at the date - January 2002 - and then at the subject... The Two Towers??? Wow, I posted a review almost a year before the movie was released! *g*

[melee187.livejournal.com]

lol.
I didn't pick up on that.

[maramcc.livejournal.com]

Then let's all sing!


Rock and pool
Is sweet and cool
So nice for feet
We only WISH
To catch a FISH
So juicy-sweeeeeet!

[(Anonymous)]

You should report it to the maintainers. It's obviously a bug and if you don't report it it will probably go unfixed. It's also a good reminder that one should NEVER EVER trust anything on the Internet. Revisionism and manipulation has never been easier. When I started my Weblog I added old entries for about a year back (censoring them in the process). Now who is to say that my Weblog didn't exist back then? How would you prove it? Let's say I want to plagiarize a brand new novel. I could edit my Weblog to add a 1 year old entry about how I had this great idea for a story. If I produce 2 friends as witnesses to testify they did read the Weblog entry 1 year back, how will the author prove that I did not indeed have this same idea 1 year before he published his novel?
I dimly recall a fragment from HHGTTG about sending something back in time and suing the original inventor for infringement.

There are only a few things that make Internet revisionism harder. One are the archives. Do you know the Wayback-Machine?

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

It allows you see a lot of web pages as they were in the past. Unfortunately they have only 1 entry for your LJ

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.livejournal.com/users/hmpf

But it shows that you are being watched and whatever you do and write may be recorded. This can lead to very weird situations sometimes:

http://tagebuch.schneepoesie.de/2003-12-24#c2003-12-19:0335223531831874