Someone asked whether I was doing anything on CBO for Halloween this year.
No.
CBO was online in 1997 apparently. I just found some of the material from back then though I cannot remember what the service we we on. Initially the first version ran from 1997 -2005 which is when I jumped to Yahoo360. FreeServers, MySpace etc., and then Word Press where at its very height of 10-12000 views a day the blog was ...well, those in the know are aware what happened and I am not stirring up bad memories (it was all a third party's fault).
Google Plus was fun as views reached 4 million then, as with Yahoo 360 and Yahoo groups, Google ("We are NEVER closing these down") closed them down.
I jumped to Blogger and despite problems here that were beyond my control we have reached 9 million views since 2011 (I gave up counting the views a year ago now).
But on each of these versions of CBO there was a constant; Halloween Posts. I used to take days to find video links and much more to cover "the three days of Halloween". LOTS of views. Lots of pinching items by other bloggers then, in 2021 I announced that there will be no more Halloween Specials on CBO.
You see there were the views and pinching material but the one thing that never happened was anyone saying they had enjoyed all of the posts and work that went into them. Not a word. Same thing with all of the Mega Posts that took days to put together. Why put in all that time and effort if no one appreciates it and others steal from them?
So if anything Halloween-ish pops up it is pure coincidence. IU do not get paid for this you knbow.
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