i would rather start off with a sensible research than some rubbish post about how a leg ended up bitten by a mosquito or how fun taking pictures of a sneezing person could be - these kinds of posts will soon follow... not now. *hark hark hark*
the word, blog is what you get when you try to combine the words, web and log or weblog, coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997. while in 1999, Peter Merholz came up with the pronunciation wee-blog.
yet G. Raikundalia & M. Rees, lecturers from Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia were said to have first discussed weblog on their paper titled Exploiting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management in 1995. although they proposed the use of a web browser to document meetings, their idea appears what blogs have evolved into.
however, its origins are relative to what blogs are: some consider blogs as webpages specially of links to other webpages (linklogs); some say these are online personal journal; while my uncle defines blogs as the sound associated with accident brought about by mere stupidity.
perhaps as an attempt to classify its growing diversity, several types of blogs have been named according to its content: artlog for arts, photoblog for photos, vlog for videos, mp3 blog for music, podcasting for audio, microblog for short texts, moblog for blogs through mobile phones, and tumblelogs for mixed media types. its varieties are increasing comparable to the varieties of silogs (sinangag at itlog). we have the traditional tapsilog for tapa, tocilog for tocino, and longsilog for longanisa, but we also have hotsilog for hotdog, porksilog for porchop, daingsilog for daing, and pakaplog for pan de sal at kape.
it was said web logs started out as linklogs when in 1992, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, an English developer and the inventor of the World Wide Web, first posted his own linklog of all new websites then. while, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) kept a similar linklog in June 1993, listing new websites.
in January 1994, Justine Hall put up his own linklog which also included reviews of other sites. two years later, however, his linklog eventually evolved into his personal daily online journal. also as a certain Swarthmore College student did. as was Jerry Pournelle.
in February 1996, Dave Winer chronicled the 24-Hours of Democracy Project, and in April, he launched what became Scripting News in 1997, which is a news page for Frontier Software users. Userland, the company he heads, released Radio Userland, one of the earliest blogging software tools.
then as mentioned, Jorn Barger came into picture in December 1997 with his introduction of the term weblog. while, Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, listed 23 weblogs in existence, which he sent to Cameron Barrett who published the list on Camworld in November 1998. people became interested in reading and/or creating web logs, and so did Peter Merholz. he was said to break the word into weblog into the phrase we blog, as the sidebar in his blog, www.PeterMe.com in April or May 1998. it was inevitably shortened to the term blog (perhaps because weblog was too long a word to pronounce then).
the number of people interested in blogging started to grow like mushrooms such that they started to create a number of uninteresting blogs. it was said that Cameron's list became so unimaginably long that he started listing only his faves. in early 1999, Brigitte Eaton launched EatonWeb, the first portal specifically put up to maintain a list of blogs. she had one-and-only-one-yet-strict criterion though: the entries should be dated! people debated about [what was and what was not a blog] for a moment, but since EatonWeb Portal was said to maintain the most complete list of blogs that then to exist, Brigitte's definition prevailed. *clap clap clap*
Scott Rosenberg, who co-found Salon as a technology editor, was one of the first media person who took the time to write about blogs, and the emergence of who he called web journalists.
in October 1998, OpenDiary was launched which was the first community to offer the readers to comment (or perhaps to spam and to bump) on other entries.
1999 proved to be a notably momentous year for the cyber journalising realm, when in March, Brad Fitzpatrick, a popular blogger then, launched LiveJournal or LJ. in July, Andrew Smales launched Pitas, the first free blogging service which provided for the first time a set of user-friendly tools necessary to setup a blog...and did i say it's free? if i didn't, then i'm saying now it's free! it was said to be an easier alternative to maintaining a news page on a website. Groksoup also released its own version. and in August, Pyra Labs, co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan and later acquired by Google in February 2003, was said to coin the word blogger, launched its own, which had evolved into...THIS. while in September, DiaryLand was launched focusing more on personal journal entries. and in late 1999, software developer Dave Winer introduced Edit This Page, while Jeff Campbell his Velocinews. these services were all designed to easily publish blogs...and they're all free!
since then and until now, blogging is diversifying through the creativity and imagination of people who *ehem* are into this personally eventful virtual world. every entry is but a history...
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