In 2005, I went to E3 with a small handful of friends. I wanted to blog a bit from the floor, but didn’t want to go through what would have been a huge hassle to use a laptop. So I set up a system that we could all send emails to with our phones and it would save the text and annotate it with the author’s name based on phone numbers. I called it a “moblog”. This was 10 months before the first Tweet, and 16 months before Twitter became publicly available. We probably wrote all of this with T9.

Here’s some of what we moblogged for E3:

  • Plutor: The new e3 blogging system is now online. (13 May, 08:36AM)
  • Nomad: I’m at E3! Just kidding I’m at crappy work. (13 May, 10:29AM)
  • Nomad: Whoever invented getting 4 hovrs of sleep should be shot (17 May, 05:54AM)
  • Chris: We’re on our way and we’ve already had at least 3 arguments. This is going to be the best trip evar!! (17 May, 06:19AM)
  • Chris: Logan just mentioned that for what we’re paying for this trip, we could buy a ton of video games. Shut up logan. (17 May, 06:29AM)
  • Plutor: Boarding takes so long. So inefficient. (17 May, 09:13AM)
  • Nomad: First coast! (17 May, 06:04PM)
  • Chris: After the flight I had significant hearing loss which still hasn’t come back. (17 May, 06:21PM)
  • Nomad: In in n out (17 May, 07:17PM)
  • Nomad: LA train stations are clean by train station standards (17 May, 08:53PM)
  • Nomad: Dancing girls = good video games (18 May, 02:05PM)
  • Plutor: Two hours in and i’ve already overloaded. Hungry, tired, amazed, and excited for more. (18 May, 02:55PM)
  • Chris: All the xbox 360 games are running off of apple G5s (18 May, 05:19PM)
  • Nomad: At the MeFi meetup everyone is cool! (18 May, 10:53PM)
  • Plutor: This mefi meetup is really cool. Los angeles is the bomb. (19 May, 12:27AM)
  • Plutor: The xbox 360 controller is so amazing. (19 May, 01:29PM)
  • Nomad: The workout room has tvs on every treadmill & bike! (19 May, 09:35PM)
  • Nomad: Controls are broke on mine though (19 May, 09:36PM)
  • Plutor: We’re going early today so we can be first in line for the new zelda. The line was > 2 hours yesterday. (20 May, 11:11AM)
  • Chris: Brian and I just met the voice of Mario! (20 May, 12:33PM)
  • Nomad: The last of e3’s children is back in the northeast. I love New York (22 May, 09:24PM)