Hard for me to believe it, but Saturday was the 20th anniversary of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with this introductory post.
I actually started writing about this stuff even earlier, in 1995, when my fascination with the potential of the internet for lawyers prompted me to launch a syndicated column, Lawyers.online, starting with this inaugural installment, The Internet: A Revolution in Law Practice. That led to publication for many years of the first newsletter for lawyers about the internet, Legal.online, and then to several books about the web for lawyers, and ultimately to this blog, which seemed the only viable way to keep up with the rapid changes in the internet and legal tech.
As I mark two decades of writing this blog (and close in on three decades of writing about tech), I feel immensely fortunate to have had a ringside seat to the ever-accelerating development