Harold Herald Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/harold-herald Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Wed, 20 May 2026 21:05:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Harold Herald Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/harold-herald 32 32 Junking the ATT 6300. No more ‘System Error 23: Bad Disk or File Name’ https://www.halphillips.net/junking-the-att-6300-means-no-more-system-error-bad-disk-or-file?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=junking-the-att-6300-means-no-more-system-error-bad-disk-or-file https://www.halphillips.net/junking-the-att-6300-means-no-more-system-error-bad-disk-or-file#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:14:01 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=3077 PORTLAND, Maine (June 15, 1996) — As I prepare to discard the computer on which I truly learned to type, compose at the keyboard and play video games, I’ve come not to bury the ol’ ATT 6300 but to praise her. After doling out the praise, however, it’s headed straight for the scrap heap. For […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/junking-the-att-6300-means-no-more-system-error-bad-disk-or-file/feed 0 Misery Units Don’t Lie: Hardship Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:05:21 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1296 [See here an archival excerpt from The Harold Herald, the world’s first blog, a form I invented in the early 1990s. Yeah, I did… One of the things that made the HH special, and thereby transcend the as-yet-created blog genre, was a stable of talented contributors. Dave Rose was one of these, and here we reprint […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed/feed 0 HH Flashback: Nixon & Dave Remembered https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:15:18 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1317 [The Harold Herald, the blog prototype I launched in the early 1990s, was nothing if not political, though the coverage wasn’t always traditional, nor was it my own.  Mark Sullivan, a fellow alum/refugee from the Enterprise-Sun newsroom, was a frequent contributor. Today he’s a skilled and prolific blogger in his own right. His HH essay […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered/feed 1 Who pioneered the blog? I did. No, really. I did. https://www.halphillips.net/who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really https://www.halphillips.net/who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:13:35 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1250 Little known fact: I invented the blog. Managed to do it proto-style, in print, and achieve a level of virality before the Internet even existed. A pretty neat trick, if you think about it. Should’ve made me famous, or rich at the very least. Instead, all I got was this lousy WordPress account. In 1992, […]

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