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It looks like his registration lapsed or something. Using archive.org you can still view his blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20140523053 ... ition.com/.

This has happened before, and the site came back up. Might have just forgotten to pay the hosting bill or something.

It was just odd how he abruptly stopped posting and blogging at the same time and never checked in again. Really hope he is ok.

It's common for blogs to expire or people to move on and never return to the FIRE scene. I mean, how often does anyone return to their old high school after graduation? We only remember the popular ones (the quarterback) but there were others who also left. For example, where's Frugal Bachelor, who also stopped abruptly. Where's that New York dude with a funny cycling blog? Another simple answer is that they got a job in finance or something with a security clearance that disallowed an online presence. A simple name change also works. Spartan Student is gone?! No he isn't. He's simply writing under his name now, but if you don't know his own name, you can't google your way to his new writings.

Lots of explanations.

Information on the internet does fade from being googlable within 10 years or so. Consider how many years we spent trying to figure out where the term "FIRE" came from.

I remember Mike's blog fondly as well. Foundational for me.

Mike's website is still offline which makes me blue as reading the posts there chronologically was an annual ritual for me.

I hope Mike is well.

If the website stays down, it just adds to the legend, in my humble opinion.

RockyMtnLiving wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:34 pm

Mike's website is still offline which makes me blue as reading the posts there chronologically was an annual ritual for me.

I hope Mike is well.

If the website stays down, it just adds to the legend, in my humble opinion.

It's probably still accessible in web archives. I was once dismayed when my favorite blogger (lots of rereads on my part too) removed hundreds of posts from his 15-year-long blog and purged those pages from internet archives as well.

Well, Lacking Ambition is now an online steroid marketplace. So the blog is gone for good or Mike finally found some ambition

theanimal wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:40 pm

Well, Lacking Ambition is now an online steroid marketplace. So the blog is gone for good or Mike finally found some ambition

Haha, there's a sad irony. Mike was the last person to have got into steroids.