I’ve been business blogging since 1998, of course it wasn’t called blogging then. I was writing a text only ezine for NicolaCairncross.com (wealth coach), which then became The Money Gym, which in the early days went out to about 25 people – friends and family who had email addresses. They passed it on and it grew.
Once written, I would then archive it on a page on my website. You could find it by clicking the ezine link, then the archive link, then the year, then the date...