Not with a bang...

This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper. —T. S. Eliot

BIBERACH, GERMANY—Late last week, Christian Neukirchen’s influential tumbleblog Anarchaia breathed its last.

Anarchaia took the well established blog form and turned it into a multimedia stream of consciousness featuring photographs, poetry, lyrics, and links. Topics ranged from the merely curious to the highly technical. It managed to maintain the same visual theme throughout its lifespan which included a half-dozen posts almost daily.

The term tumblelog was coined in mid-2005 by Why the Lucky Stiff on his RedHanded blog.

Anarchaia also inspired the popular projectionist tumblelog, which launched a few months later. Entire startups were subsequently built around the form.

It is survived by the other Christian Neukirchen projects Rack, test/spec/bacon and his own blog. There are rumors that it has already reincarnated as Trivium.

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