History of Blogging
If you don’t know what blogging is until now
then most probably you’ve slept under a rock for the last few years.
It’s so famous than it even plays a very
important part in world politics because people all around the world search and
read news and information on the web.
All this has a long history in time. Nowadays
blogs online are a common method that many people use but before that there
were many ways like email lists and Usenet and commercial online services such
as: CompuServe, BBS, Genie and BiX making the rules on the Internet.
Until 1990, WebEx was the first company supporting
running conversation.
Topical connections were used as “threads” and
everything resembled a lot with the Mass Observation project developed in the
20th century.
Back in 1983 Brian Redman developed the mod.ber
and at first, he and his partners wrote articles on threads and postings
published on the Internet. It was just like a blog because they used almost the
same writing style. At the end of each text they attached a link to other
interesting place signed by other blogger. But all this lasted for almost eight
months.
After that blogs became online diaries where
people presented parts or events from their personal life. The authors were
considered to be escribitionists, journalers, diarists and journalists.
These days, journal communities are very
important online and Brad Fitzpatrick is known to be the first blogger in the
world. Together with him there were Jerry Pournelle and Justin Hall.
In 1994, there was a live blog that used an
EyeTap device and wearable computer and combined together video, pics and text.
Steven Gibson and Stephen Heaslip were the first
bloggers ever hired in February 1997 by Ritual Entertainment. And all this
evolved from the plans of John Carmack that is a game programmer famous for
publishing a journal through 'finger protocol'.
Blogs were inserted on individual homepages and
corporate sites and very often they contain information and news. The best
example is probably the Drudge Report founded by a maverick reporter called
Matt Drudge.
The Institute of Public Accuracy started back in
1998 to post one-paragraphed news weekly together with Tongue-in-cheek by Kibo.
Now, blogs are a new class online publishing
because they use modern and advanced tools for writing, posting and taking care
of web articles. In time this has turned into a popular method. Hosting
services for blogs developed a lot these days and some companies even developed
blog software such as: WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type, LiveJournal and so on
and so forth.
On the other hand, you should know that P.Merholz
was the first person to ever use the term blog. At first it was a shorter
version of web log - “we blog” and only later it was adopted as a noun and a
verb. In other words, “to blog” means to post or to edit a weblog.
In the last few years, blogging became so
important that even politicians use it to keep in touch with their electors.
You can influence one’s mind and for some people that’s a great feeling.

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