Dua Dekade Menjadi Blogger: Dari Anonim ke Polar Bear ICT

24 Agustus 1999. Saat itu menulis untuk pertama kalinya di Blogspot. Anonim. Hanya tercatat sebagai “Blogspot user”, tanpa foto profil, tanpa identitas jelas. Namun linknya tetap jujur menyebut aerryawan.blogspot.com.

Internet masih berisik kala itu. Modem dial-up berdengung dengan nada khas “kreeeek krrreeet shiiiing”, warnet penuh, dan browser yang bersaing antara Netscape dengan Internet Explorer. Menulis karena ingin menuangkan isi kepala. Tanpa branding, tanpa target, tanpa pembaca setia. Sekadar menulis, dan membiarkan kata-kata berjalan sendiri di ruang maya.

Hari ini, 20 tahun kemudian, blog itu masih ada. Arsip dari 1999 hingga 2019 tersusun rapi. Dulu tulisan hanya berisi gumaman, kini berubah menjadi refleksi tentang ICT, governance, faith, hingga narasi absurd tentang Polar Bear dan ICT.

Perjalanan ini mengajarkan satu hal: konsistensi lebih penting dari gaya. Dunia berubah—platform sosial datang dan pergi, orang berpindah ke media baru—tetapi blog tetap setia. Blog adalah catatan panjang, bukan sekadar status harian. Blog adalah ruang hening tempat kata menemukan rumah.

Polar Bear ICT berkata:
“Dulu mengetik di layar 14 inci CRT, dengan font Times New Roman. Kini mengetik di layar tablet dan monitor ultrawide. Tetapi esensinya sama: menulis adalah menjaga memori, menolak dilupakan oleh waktu.”

Blog ini lahir anonim, tetapi bertahan karena kejujuran. Mungkin gaya tulisan berubah, tapi semangatnya tetap: mencatat, merefleksi, dan berbagi. Dari anonim menjadi identitas, dari masa lalu menuju masa depan.

Menulis adalah napas panjang. Blog adalah rumahnya.

EGYPT AND MONOTHEISM (Part 2 of 2)

Egyptian pharaoh Akh-en-aton is the first registered real monotheist in the history of mankind. Here is a hymn which expresses the basics of the Aton/Aten cult:

• "..How manifold it is, what you have made!...
• O sole god, like whom there is no other!
• You created the world according to your desire,
• While you were alone;
• All men, cattle and wild beasts,
• Whatever is on earth, going on its feet,
• And whatever is on high flying with its wings.
• The countries of Syria and Nubia, the land of Egypt,
• You settled every man in his place,
• You supplied their necessities,
• Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.
• Their tongues are separate in speech,
• And their natures as well;
• Their skins are distinguished,
• As you distinguished the foreign peoples...
• ...there is none other that knows you,
• Save your son Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re,
• For you have made him well versed in your plans and in your strength."

Believers of the next belief might find some of the exact attributes of their god in this hymn. The idea of monotheism which has reached its peak with Akh-en-aten had to stay in darkness for a long time after him. Some scholars find the origin of the sole god, the father-god of the codebooks of next belief in the Aton/Aten belief system. Some western historians maintain that the next belief had got the idea of the sole god from Akh-en-aten.