Tell me about Microsiervos, the blog
A profile built from the blog's official About page (16 dated milestones) and three external recognition sources: 30 years of history, from Douglas Coupland's 1995 novel to a fresh post in August 2026, around the formal launch by merger on 25 July 2003.
Microsiervos began as a personal blog written by three friends and grew into a broader digital project — one of Spain's early and enduring independent geek-culture blogs, still independent in voice. Its About page says it is now edited by Álvaro Ibáñez («Alvy») and Javier Pedreira («Wicho»).
Alvy's Hiperespacio.com and Nacho Palou's Microsiervos.org fused on 25 July 2003, when Wicho joined. That is the formal launch — but the inherited archive reaches back to 2001, and some pages date to 1996. Nacho Palou was a founder, not a current editor.
Approachable Spanish-language popularization of technology, science and the internet, broadened by astronomy, aviation, gadgets, puzzles, probability, urban legends, humor, books, films and personal curiosities. The name honors Douglas Coupland's 1995 novel Microserfs, titled Microsiervos in Spanish.
The authors describe it as artisanal, personal and entertaining: posts carry personal appraisals and odd touches of humor, and telling a story amusingly can outrank rigor. It is written by ordinary people in accessible language — a blog, not a newspaper or a rigor-first scientific journal. Programmatic advertising has been handled by Massarius since 2019.
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Built from 16 dated milestones on Microsiervos's official About page, one official profile row, and 3 external recognition rows (The Observer/The Guardian, Congreso de Periodismo Digital de Huesca, SAGE); homepage activity checked 1 September 2026. Book-publication entries irrelevant to the blog's history and duplicate date mentions were omitted from the timeline for clarity.