History of Blogging

The History Of Blogging

 

In this post I am going to tell you about the history of blogs, from their dark ages until our modern era. Who invented the word blog? And much more.

 

The Dark Ages of Blogging

 

I assume that since you are reading my blog you already have at least some idea of what a blog is.

 

What´s interesting to know is that blogging has played a very important role in politics. This is not only true in the United States but also in basically every country around the globe. You can´t help to stumble upon various blogs when looking for news, review or information. Blog usually are the right place to look.

 

If you are interested and want to know more about the ancient art of blogging, I recommend you to look at its history.

 

In the time before online blogging became popular there were the digital communities. They came in all shapes and size such as BiX (a commercial online service), CompuServe, Usenet, Genie, BBS and email lists. Some of the veterans reading this might remember these dinosaurs.

In 1983 mod.ber was created. Brian Redman and a couple of his colleagues posted very interesting summaries of various threads, topics and postings that happened all over the internet and around the globe.

 

At this time it was a huge success and commonly loved because of the style of the journal publishing used. These summaries posted by mod.ber contained links to other cool and interesting places, researched and decided by the bloggers.

 

However mod.ber met it´s end for unknown reasons after about eigth months after its foundation.

 

The Drudge Report is an interesting example of a blog that focused on news. It was founded by Matt Drudge -ergo Drudge Report – a maverick reporter. In 1998 the Institute of Public Accuracy began posting news-pegged quotes, usually one-paragraphed, similar to tweets, and it was released a couple of times every week. Tongue-in-cheek was also a noted blog precursor updated by Kibo, a Usenet veteran, some say legend.

 

 

But who invented the word “Blog”?

 

This term was created by P. Merholz. He broke down the word weblog to ‘we blog’. Shortly after the invention, blog was adopted as a verb and a noun. When you say ‘to blog’, it means to write, post or to edit a weblog.

 

Modern Blogging in todays world

 

So, what is blogging today? Modern blogs can be like online diaries since they tell us about the personal lives of the bloggers. Of course with exceptions. The writers often refer to themselves as journalers, diarists, escribitionists or even journalists. Depending on their view of themselves. There was even a big following founded around the concept of journal communities.

 

Nowadays can not only find personal homepages but also corporate sites and government sites that contain blogs. Oftentimes, these sites have news and “what’s new” and trending sections.

 

 

The recognized modern blogs are produced through a distinct class online publishing. Thanks to the evolution of the tools at disposal in the facilitation, production and maintenance of all the web articles. The feasible publishing process appealed to a larger and less technical affine populace. Now we have numerous hosting services exclusively for blogging and they are run through the use of very easy to use blog software and hosts. Some examples are Movable Type, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and many other easy, cheap or even free hosting services available.

 

At present, blogs play a vital role for many political candidates, political consultants, companies, VIPs and other who are using them. The blogs can be opinion altering and even forming and can effectively harmonize with a blogger’s desired constituents. Today blogging already is part of the web’s infinite services and used it for different purposes but an immense number of people.

 

History of Blogging