I think everyone looks up to someone and is inspired by someone else. Even if you never met them, their work can inspire you in your own. Even fellow bloggers out there have other bloggers that they look up to and wish they could be as good, or be as creative, or have as good of content as the one they admire. Yesterday I found out that one of my first inspirations on the internet died nearly two years ago. Megan Miller of megsplace and digitalreflex passed away on June 20th 2008.
I can’t say that I didn’t kind of know, but having an inkling and then finding out for sure are two totally different things. I hadn’t seen her on AIM in a while, but I can’t believe it’s been two years. Where does the time go? It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we were talking about me writing a better blog program than just her using text files. I think she will always be an inspiration to me. It’s weird when I think back to our conversations, over ten years ago she first told me what cable internet was (though it would be years until it was available in my area), and what AOL’s BYOIA was.
Goodbye Megan, I hope you continue to inspire people wherever you are.