My recollection of weblog history is hazy. I remember the first time I used email, the first time I read and posted to Usenet news, the first time I used a web browser, etc. but I don’t recall the first time I read a weblog. The blog concept includes things people had been doing in print form long before the term was coined. And people have been posting and updating “personal pages” on the web since the early days. But when did we start calling them weblogs ? I found this essay written in September 2000 on weblog history. According to the essay, the term weblog was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.
I created my first weblog on Edit This Page in 1999. I posted a few times but abandoned it in 2001. I never took the time to learn Manila properly and lost interest. I just discovered that the blog is still there. For what it’s worth, the set of articles that I wrote are still there too. Yes, the blog title is pretty odd. I just translated “line noise” into German.
My current blog started on Blogger in April 2001. I forgot about it until this past August when I was looking at some Blogger stuff. I posted a test entry linked to Ned’s blog. He found the link in Technorati and sent me an email wanting to know if I was starting a blog. I decided to post some “real” entries. I’ve been posting steadily since then. Thanks to Ned for providing the impetus to get started and keep going.
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