Nah, I was keeping that diary since the 96/97 holidays, when I got a pocket size diary and thought up using it as such. I kept a diary like that (for characters and plotbunnies) until 2002, and by that time I was on the internet and probably got my first lj not long after.

I would have to go check to find out when I made either of my non-character journals, though this one has been around for less than 2 years.