History of Blogging
The Blog Herald cites the origins of the term weblog to G. Raikundalia & M. Rees, two lecturers from Bond University on the Gold Coast. The term was first used in a paper titled "Exploiting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management." Popular use of the term Weblog as we know it today is from Jorn Barger of the Weblog Robot Wisdom (robotwisdom.com) in December 1997. Barger coined the term weblog meaning logging the Web. In 1999 programmer Peter Merholz shortened the term weblog to blog.
The origin of the blogs come back since the writing in personal diaries. Today, a blog is a Webpage that tells us of personal journals written by a company or by any person. Blogs were always written in chronical order but today the order is the opposite, like a forum.
The word blog comes from the word Weblog. Blogs are updated daily or even hourly. Blogs usually describe and make the reader understand the author's opinion about something. If the blog belongs to a company, it will show off their goals, ideology and opinions, as well. The blog can be defined as an online diary in which its writer records everyday's news or opinions.
Other forms of bussiness blogs use the finger protocol. It was a popular system for online blogs in the mids 1990s, and it became popular by 3D game makers who used it to produce interesting news and details about games, etc... for their fans.
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The Origins of the Word Blog
Timeline: Notable Blogging Events
| 1994, January | Justin Hall a Swarthmore College student creates what is considered to be the very first blog "Links.net". Some industry trackers cite the first blog as belonging to David Winer, "Scripting News" (1997). |
| 1997, December | Jorn Barger coins the term Weblog. |
| 1998, October | Open Diary is founded. |
| 1999, April | April: Peter Merholz shortens Weblog to blog. |
| 1999, July | The first free weblog tool launches (Pitas). |
| 1999, August | Pyra releases Blogger. |
| 2002, February | Heather Armstrong is fired for discussing her job on her blog. The term "Dooced" (see below) is coined. |
| 2002, August | Gizmodo launches. |
| 2003, February | Google buys Blogger from Pyra (1 million blogger users, with 200,000 active). |
| 2003, June | Google launches AdSense and incorporates matching ads to blog content. |
| 2003, July | MySpace launches. |
| 2003, August | TypePad (blogging and hosting service) launches. |
| 2004, December | MSN Spaces launches (which ties in MSN Messenger and Hotmail services with blogging) |
| 2005, March | AOL launches its RED Blogs service, aimed at the teen segment |
| 2005, July | News Corp buyst Intermix Media (owner of Myspace.com) for $580 million. |
| 2005, October | AOL buys blog publisher Weblogs Inc. ($25 million). |
| 2005, August | TypePad launches TypePad Mobile (mobile blogging tools). |
| 2005, November | Andrew Sullivan moves his popular blog "Daily Dish" to Time.com. Time gets advertising revenues from the blog and Sullivan is paid a fee for his services. |
| 2005, November | DigitalGrit launches its Business Blog Service |
| 2006, June | eBay launches user blogs at its eBay Live! conference. |
| 2006, August | Google pays $900 million in shared revenue to be the exclusive search provider for MySpace.com |
