Doogie Howser was the original blogger

As I've been writing this blog the last few days, I'm starting to realize how therapeutic it can be. I think, and then I type. No rough drafts or pre-prepared banter, just brain to keyboard. This reminded me of Doogie Howser, M.D., a fairly popular TV show that ran from the 80s in the 90s.

If you remember, each Doogie Howser episode ended with him typing a diary entry on his computer (which, if I recall correctly was an IBM PC clone, with a blue screen with white letters - classic WordPerfect style).

He would pour over the excruciating details of his daily interactions, and eventually sum it all up with a cliche.

Nonetheless, this got me thinking. Did Doogie know that he was the original blogger? What he did at the end of each day isn't too different from what I'm doing right now - writing about what I'm thinking about. Maybe Doogie actually thought other people were reading, maybe he didn't realize that the whole dot-com boom and bust would have to come around before he'd have the readership he deserved. I'd have so many questions for 14 year old Doogie. For instance, would he still write about all the older women that caught has fancy at the hospital? Would he offer to pay his parents for the broadband charges? Would he eventually start writing out of his local Starbucks?

So many questions... if only he was still writing.