Vol. 1 · An archive 2003-2012 · Restored 2026
A preserved tech blog,
refusing to disappear.
From 2003 to 2012, kingsley2.com documented the early Web 2.0 era from the inside: Salesforce, WordPress, jQuery, social media monitoring before there was a category for it.
Kingsley 2.0 restores those posts from the Wayback Machine and adds modern retrospectives, so the work that shaped the modern web stays readable and credited.
- 76Archive posts restored
- 10Modern retrospectives
- 2003-2012Original era preserved
- 10Topics covered
Restored original posts, 2003-2012
Recent archive
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2011-09-09
Kingsley 2.0
Permalink Dreaming of A BottomBerry I dream of a BottomBerry - a BlackBerry for the Bottom of the Pyramid. A phone that will help BOP users connect with each other in more meaningful and economically productive ways.
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2008-11-06
Shared “What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?” on Google Reader
Shared “What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?” on Google Reader November 6, 2008 · No Comments Shared by Kingsley 2.0 brilliant.
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2008-08-28
About Kingsley
Editorial note for the Kingsley 2.0 preservation archive. Personal biographical information about the original author of kingsley2.com 2003-2012 has been redacted from this entry out of respect for privacy.
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2008-08-18
Hitler Goes To Burning Man, Gets Rick Roll’d and Kicked off WOW Servers While Using Windows Vista
Hitler Goes To Burning Man, Gets Rick Roll’d and Kicked off WOW Servers While Using Windows Vista August 18, 2008 · No Comments There’ve been a slew of these hilarious mashups lately, so I decided to put together a small compilation of them.
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2008-08-04
Kingsley 2.0
Using the Social Media Firehose , which I built in order to listen to people talking about salesforce.com , I often happen across conversations that weren’t intended for me.
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2008-07-25
Walking the Line Between Listening and Stalking
Original 2008 essay on the ethics of corporate social media monitoring, written by the Salesforce employee who built the Social Media Firehose. Republished with 2026 context on how the listening-stalking line moved as the tools got better.
Threaded through the archive
Topics
- Salesforce 6 posts
The Salesforce ecosystem from 2003 customer pioneers to today: AppExchange, Force.com, MuleSoft, Slack acquisition, agentic AI on the platform.
- WordPress 3 posts
WordPress story from 2003 fork of b2/cafelog to the headless and block-editor era, with a focus on early-community voices like Matt Mullenweg.
- jQuery 1 posts
jQuery archive and modern retrospectives: how John Resig's 2006 library shaped a decade of browser development before React and Web Components.
- Social Media 7 posts
The social media monitoring stack from 2005 Firehose-era tooling to modern brand-listening platforms.
- Blogging 60 posts
Personal blogging history, from Movable Type 2.x to static-site generators, the rise of newsletters, and the platform consolidation of the 2010s.
- Mobile Web 2 posts
How the mobile web was built before the iPhone changed everything: WAP, J2ME, early webkit, responsive design.
- SaaS 6 posts
SaaS as a business model and engineering culture, with attention to the 2003-2010 cohort that wrote the playbook for everyone after.
- Web Standards 3 posts
CSS, XHTML, microformats, accessibility: the web-standards movement that won the late 2000s.
- Open Source 4 posts
Open-source community history: licensing, governance, foundation drama, and the projects that survived the transition to corporate stewardship.
- Tech Industry 12 posts
Industry retrospectives: acquisitions, layoffs, cycles, and the people who lived through the dotcom-to-AI arc.
Modern context for old stories
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Open Source Foundations 2003-2026: From OSI to the Linux Foundation Empire
Twenty-three years of open-source governance evolution: OSI license disputes, the Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, the Linux Foundation, CNCF, and the 2024-2026 source-available license war.