After writing in this blog for the ten weeks that I have, I started to wonder
why it all started. Not my blog, but the idea of a blog. From my knowledge,
the only people who still use blogs are designers and English students (go
figure), but I know they used to be quite popular. Who thought of the idea for
a blog? What was the first blog? Why use the word "blog"? What were blogs
originally used for? I sought the sage advice of the internet. It turns out
that the word "blog" doesn't actually mean anything (not a big suprise), but is
in fact an abbreviation of "web log" (I can sort of see the thought process
there). The first "weblogs" were created in the 1990's, at the dawn of personal
coomputer use. This became increasingly popular because of the recent creation
of web publishing tools, which allowed the regular joe to publish a website
without a knowledge of html or FTP. It's impossible to say what exactly was the
first "blog", but the term blog was coined by Peter Merholz, creator of
peterme.com (wikipedia told me, so that may not be accurate). Blogs were
popular from the start of the 90's to about 2005, and were created on a range of
topics. Originally, most were just online journals or memoirs of tech-savvy
individuals (shoutout to David Butler for that terminology), but from that
stemmed corporate blogs, political blogs, design blogs, microblogging (sites
like twitter), and even school blogs (hey guys). Nowadays, blogs still exist
(such as this one), but its seen a loss in traffic to sites like Facebook,
Tumblr, and various other social networks.
why it all started. Not my blog, but the idea of a blog. From my knowledge,
the only people who still use blogs are designers and English students (go
figure), but I know they used to be quite popular. Who thought of the idea for
a blog? What was the first blog? Why use the word "blog"? What were blogs
originally used for? I sought the sage advice of the internet. It turns out
that the word "blog" doesn't actually mean anything (not a big suprise), but is
in fact an abbreviation of "web log" (I can sort of see the thought process
there). The first "weblogs" were created in the 1990's, at the dawn of personal
coomputer use. This became increasingly popular because of the recent creation
of web publishing tools, which allowed the regular joe to publish a website
without a knowledge of html or FTP. It's impossible to say what exactly was the
first "blog", but the term blog was coined by Peter Merholz, creator of
peterme.com (wikipedia told me, so that may not be accurate). Blogs were
popular from the start of the 90's to about 2005, and were created on a range of
topics. Originally, most were just online journals or memoirs of tech-savvy
individuals (shoutout to David Butler for that terminology), but from that
stemmed corporate blogs, political blogs, design blogs, microblogging (sites
like twitter), and even school blogs (hey guys). Nowadays, blogs still exist
(such as this one), but its seen a loss in traffic to sites like Facebook,
Tumblr, and various other social networks.