Unknown: Hole in the Sky - The Origin & History
I (Major) created the blog in December of 2009 after talking with friends at work all the time about nerdy stuff, I said all these things we talk about are gold. Let's write them down at least, even if it's just for us. I was playing a AD&D campaign with some friends from Highschool at the time that was wrapping up, and I was the DM. I frequented local game shops and used campaign supplements from $1 issues of 20 year copies of Dragon Magazine to come up with ideas. We had just finished "The Unknown Hole in the Sky", a floating prison scenario by Ed Greenwood, and I really liked the ring of it. "Hole in the Sky" was stuck in my head, but that site name was already taken. I tried different versions of it until I came up with "Uknownhole.blogspot.com". I thought it sounded funny, on top of being something I thought was cool at the moment.
I knew I could not write enough to keep it going, so I popped a post on Facebook and asked some friends to write for it. A few people answered the call: Dustin Onash, Morgan Hallett, Gary Esposito, Chris Donlin and Shawntel Clark. Most of us worked together which made it easy to think of things and run to the back and make a post real quick on the computer. Dustin was a Magic the Gathering friend from high school, and wrote some really great articles for the blog that punched above the pay grade. Morgan posted about tits, I talked about shitty movies, everyone kind of had their thing; and for about a year and half, we had a lot of fun with it. The blog made a total of $80 in revenue from Adsense, but was cancelled for exposed breasts, and links to piratebay movies and games. Most of those articles are gone now, so don't bother looking. Going forward, all the movie links are to youtube and other sites that seem to be mostly harmless.
Once in a great while I would want to talk about something, just get it out of my head. Personal issues, things that make me laugh or cry.. whatever. I made a post here and there, maybe once a year. Reads declined and I didn't care, and I honestly never checked it very often. Right at the 10th anniversary of the blog, I made a post just writing about nothing and posted a few pictures.. and this happened:
People were reading again. A few of my articles got picked up on Reddit, and some of the dumb things I made in photoshop years ago were mentioned by a semi-popular youtuber. I decided to try to do it again, this time all me, and delete the previous posts that would detract from Adsense and keep it at least PG-13; and just like that we were off to the races. I may bring some friends on to write for the blog if they have something to say, I'm not against some outside influence. I like the feeling the vibe of the blog. Small posts of nonsense intermixed with some tech-jargon bullshit that needs to escape my head before it pops. There will be times where I will drone on for what seems like forever, and others where I'm in-and-out.
I guess that's it. I like to have a few beers and write what's on my mind. Sub if you like it and comment and tell me what you think.
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