I recently realized that Buffet o’ Blog has now reached 20 years of blogging. That’s a long time in internet years, about the same age as YouTube. We’ve had almost 1.2 million pageviews, with over 194,300 unique visitors. That’s a lot of people to see my ramblings! That’s hard to grasp. Hopefully some of them were amused.

There have been over 1200 posts. That’s hard to believe, too. And I still haven’t run out of ideas. I can’t guarantee they’re all great ideas, but there are ideas.

If someone has read all 1200+ posts, there should be some type of award or certification for that. There isn’t, but there should be. 🙂 Although there may not be anyone that qualifies other than me, and I shouldn’t count since I wrote most of them.

As far as I know, there’s no award for a website reaching 20 years, although it is probably a rare occurrence. But we should celebrate anyway. Although there’s no budget for a party in real life with all subscribers, and there’s not even enough budget to send all subscribers a box of cookies. So I suppose the best option is to have a look back at the highlights. (It’s even better if you eat cookies while perusing the links below.)

There’s several ways to measure highlights. Let’s start with some of top posts in terms of pageviews:

random Monday quotes: 104,442 views — Monday is the most popular topic here, because Mondays are the least popular day. (Wait, does that make sense? People are interested in reading about things they aren’t interested in? Just kidding. I get the allure of quotes about Mondays.)

funny pictures, episode 5: 49,915 views — There are many posts here with funny pictures, and I’m not sure why this one is ahead of the rest.

Man vs Food — Carnivore Pizza Challenge: 29,645 views — I understand why pizza is popular.

funny quotes about Mondays, part 2: 27,956 views — More Monday content.

caption contest, unfair sumo wrestling match: 21,803 views — I enjoy the caption contests. FYI, you can still comment on old ones — your comments will show up in the sidebar (on desktop anyway), so they will still be noticed.

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker – top boffins: 21,531 views — It’s humorous that a serious science event choose the Muppets scientists to represent them. Their experiments fail rather often, but that makes them more funny.

I want a tank to drive around town: 20,571 views — This is both a great idea and a terrible idea, which makes it fun to think about.

new Pizza Hut crusts, plus our ideas: 15,021 views — More pizza in the top list. But I still haven’t heard of anyone using our idea of putting bacon in the edges of the crust. Why not make it more awesome?

some random quotes for your Monday morning: 13,414 views — These aren’t about Mondays, but apparently including Monday in the title was enough to make it popular. Hmm…

Are dinosaurs extinct because of their farting?: 12,212 views — I don’t know how many people care about this hypothesis, but dinosaurs are popular and farting is popular, so maybe combining them adds to more popularity.

I’m going to split this look back up into several posts, because this has become rather time-consuming — partly because I’m enjoying looking back at the highlights. So I’m going to continue the celebration in the next post.