History of Blogging The Short Version

It all started with a research paper and term weblog with relation to delivery of content on a website “Exploting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management” by G.Raikundalia & M. Rees, two lectures from Bond on the Gold Coast, Australia August 1995. The idea behind it was that a web browser could have access to various meeting documents such as; tabled documents, minutes, reports and document indexes. Although the paper aimed at recording electronic meetings it strongly reflects on what blogs evolved into today.

The term Weblog as we know it today was never actually used in the research paper it came from Jorn Barger of weblog Robot Wisdom December 1997.

In 1998 there were a handful sites in a steady process of growing that are now identified as blogs.  In November of that year Camworld published a list of all sites following into the weblog category and now you’ve guessed it the bandwagon begins!

Rapid growth starts and continuing steady.  July 1999 Pitas the first build your own weblog too launched. Then shortly after Pyra released Blogger and Groksoup launched also with these easy to use blogging tools the atomic blog bomb had united!

Blogging History The Long Version

WordPress the late arrival started in 2003 but the best so far. I started Ja Kel Daily Dot Com February 2007 and started blogging February 2006.

May 20, 2007 | posted in Talk, The Net 

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4 Responses to “History of Blogging The Short Version”

  1. Greg Stratz on May 21st, 2007

    hmm ineresting.. I had no idea. Good to know how it all started though thanks.

  2. John on May 21st, 2007

    Interesting I’ve always wondered how blogging came about.

  3. Jason Neuman on May 24th, 2007

    Yes, I had wondered the same and just decided to search for the info one day. Then post what I found.

  4. Nate Passey on June 26th, 2007

    I am going to have to disagree, in part, with some aspects of this interpretation of the history of blogging. I do value this piece of work as a great contribution to the history of this wondrous communication and appreciate your willingness to contribute, albeit a misguided contribution, to this most difficult area of history in our most current age. Below is a more accurate assessment of blogging that I am sure you will accept with out reservation.

    Blogging gets its name from two words “B-list” and “log”. These Internet based “logs” were a dumping ground for B-list movie ideas, some of which actually ended up getting produced. Some notable B-list features that had their beginnings in blogging include: Spice World, Water World, Spicy Water World, Watery Spice World, Worldly Spicy Water World (I & II) and Gigli.

    Although blogs were highly influenced by under-talented moviemakers, contributions to blogging was not limited to just hopeless film school graduates. Many other groups of people enjoyed the therapeutic rants that a good blogging can provide. Some examples: whiney teenagers, complaining adults, bellyaching liberals, and nerds. It was a new avenue of pissing and moaning that the world had never seen before.

    The history and future of blogging is immersed in two basic truths about human nature: People need to be heard and people love to complain.

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