From November 1963 to July 1969 Alan Shepard was Chief of the Astronaut Office.
Open Diary -LRB- often abbreviated as `` OD '' -RRB- was an online diary community , an early example of social networking software .. online diary. online diary. social networking. social networking. software. software. It was founded on October 22 , 1997 .. Open Diary was shut down on February 7 , 2014 .. The site was owned and operated by Bruce Ableson and Susan Ableson , known on the Open Diary website by the title of their diaries , The DiaryMaster and The DiaryMistress .. Bruce Ableson. Bruce Ableson. Susan Ableson. Susan Ableson. Ableson has described Open Diary as `` the first web site that brought online diary writers together into a community . ''. online diary. online diary. Open Diary has hosted more than five million diaries since it was founded , and was home to over half a million diaries .. As of October 2008 , there were over 561,000 diaries on OpenDiary.com , including diaries from 77 different countries and all 7 continents .. The site innovated some key features that later became central to the architecture of other social networking and blogging sites , including reader comments and friends-only privacy .. social networking. social networking. blogging. blogging. Open Diary officially shut down on 7 February 2014 at 12 :04 a.m. EST. .