In our regular "Internet Archeology" column, we talk about various web standards, symbols, terms, and concepts: how they emerged and how they became established in web culture. Read this article to learn how the word "blog" became popular and where it came from.
Blogs as we know them today have a fairly long history. First, resources appear in reverse chronological order from personal thoughts and news feeds on Usenet and the .PLAN extension on early Unix operating systems. The modern form of blogging dates back to 1994 when Justin Hall, a student at Swarthmore College, created the website http://www.links.net/ to share interesting links he found.
There are other protobloggers who can be considered the progenitors of modern blogging: for example Dave Wiener (Scripting News) and Jorn Berger (Robot Wisdom), who first used the term "weblog", or the founders of portable wireless devices. webcam blog, modern video blog prototype.
"Wiener calls them 'news sites', but I don't mean just about news, I find things that I think are worth reading or watching," Berger said. “So I had to come up with a name at the last minute, and I used AltaVista to see if a different variation (with the important descriptive word 'log') had been used. "Weblog" is used by site administrators as a synonym for "server logs" or "HTML logs," but since they have other options, I'm using the more generic one, says Berger, introducing the term.
In 1999, Peter Merholtz of Peterme.com divided the term "web blog" with the term "our blog". Then future Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who works at Pyra Labs, started using the word "blog" as both a noun and a verb. Today, it is a very common term, even for previous generations, and the number of blogs worldwide is estimated to be in the tens of millions.
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