terra
01-30-2006, 08:51 AM
I wonder who wrote the first blog and what made them think to do that. It's such an egotistical hobby, thinking that others want to read what I'm thinking.
It started with Ham Radio - Ham radio had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s.
Diarists kept journals on the Web: most called themselves online diarists, journalists, journallers, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists. The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. The first famous journaller was probably Justin Hall.
Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal.
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog in April or May of 1999. [1] "Blog" was accepted as a noun (weblog shortened) and as a verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or a post to one's weblog")
Justin Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Hall), who began eleven years of personal "blogging" in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers.
Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched Blogger.com (which was purchased by Google in February 2003)
As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary.
In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as MP Tom Watson of the UK Labour Party, began to blog to bond with constituents.
It started with Ham Radio - Ham radio had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s.
Diarists kept journals on the Web: most called themselves online diarists, journalists, journallers, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists. The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. The first famous journaller was probably Justin Hall.
Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal.
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog in April or May of 1999. [1] "Blog" was accepted as a noun (weblog shortened) and as a verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or a post to one's weblog")
Justin Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Hall), who began eleven years of personal "blogging" in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers.
Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched Blogger.com (which was purchased by Google in February 2003)
As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary.
In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as MP Tom Watson of the UK Labour Party, began to blog to bond with constituents.