World’s oldest blogger dies, aged 97
p2pnet news view P2P:- Maria Amelia Lopez, arguably the world’s oldest blogger, has died in Spain, where she was introduced to the online world by her grandchildren only two years ago.
Her posts, “touched on many aspects of her long life, from political memories of the Franco era to intimate musings on her increasingly fragile state of health,” says Times Online, going on:
“Mrs Lopez blogged from the seaside town of Muxia, where she was born in 1911, or from the farmhouse in Galicia belonging to her grandson, Daniel.”
Her first post, which went up on her 95th birthday,read:
“Today it’s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog,” says UTV.
A later posts reads, “Since that day I’ve had 1,570,784 visits from bloggers from five continents who have cheered up my old age,” says the story.
Times Online – World’s oldest blogger MarÃa Amelia López Soliño dies, May 22, 2009
UTV – ‘World’s oldest blogger’ logs off in Spanish home town, aged 97, May 22, 2009
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
RIP Maria Amelia Lopez
May 27th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I’m rooting for Jon Newton to break that record.
May 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Yep. Only two years to go.
heh (falls off chair, breaks neck and expires)
Cheers!