Never Was, then called The Gatehouse, launched its first blog in February 2009. Before then, we had been a hand-coded HTML website.

Several members of our message-board community, the Smoking Lounge, joined as bloggers, including Hilde Heyvaert, Ella Kremper and “Redfezwriter”. Tome Wilson of the Dieselpunks community wrote a weekly “Dieselpunks News” column.

In April 2010, The Gatehouse switched to a picture blog on Tumblr. We wouldn’t have a proper blog again until October 2011. The website you are reading now is a continuation of that third blog.

Many of the posts from the first blog have been lost, but I have been able to recover some.

Here is an overview of the 2009 posts that are now restored:

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New World Order Battalion of Death: Russia’s First Female Fighting Force Lady Liberty in Ruins
Steel Ball Sanatorium Desert Modernism in Palm Springs Crooked House
Peering Into Space Hitler’s Super Train Scatter! Britain’s Secret Tank Weapon

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We delved into our archives and restored twelve old #steampunk and #dieselpunk blog posts. Happy reading! Never Was, then called The Gatehouse, launched its first blog in February 2009. Before then, we had been a hand-coded HTML website.