My feedback is coming in from my daughters (all of whom I consider to be good writers) and my first said, “you made a blog – awesome.” It sounded like something I should google to see how to remove the blog stain from a white linen tablecloth. I know it was a compliment, but being a wordsmith, I didn’t like the sound of BLOG – BLAHG, would make it dull and boring and I began to wonder….. was it an acronym – bulletin-live-online-gab – no that can’t be it.. so what does a good wordsmith do? WIKIPEDIA, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
“While the term “blog” was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before “blogging” became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists[1][2] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with “threads”. Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical “corkboard”. Some[specify] have likened blogging to the Mass-Observation project of the mid-20th century.[citation needed]”
….. more, I wanted more …. Wikipedia never disappoints…
“Websites, including both corporate sites and personal homepages, had and still often have “What’s New” or “News” sections, often on the index page and sorted by date. One example of a news based “weblog” is the Drudge Report founded by the self-styled maverick reporter Matt Drudge, though apparently Drudge dislikes this classification. Two others—Institute for Public Accuracy and Arts & Letters Daily—began posting news releases featuring several news-pegged one-paragraph quotes several times a week beginning in 1998. One noteworthy early precursor to a blog was the tongue-in-cheek personal website that was frequently updated by Usenet legend Kibo.
Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of “blogging”. Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using,[10] such as WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger or LiveJournal, or on regular web hosting services.
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger[11] on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[12][13][14] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used “blog” as both a noun and verb (“to blog,” meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”) and devised the term “blogger” in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[15]”
Aha I am a web logger — ok now I’m happy — be sure to click on link above, there is more where that came from. Thank you, Wikipedia. And thank you, kids, for setting me on this journey…. And now … we blog.
