Blogging Is 10 Years Old 108
Several readers sent us notice of an article in the Wall Street Journal in advance of the tenth anniversary of the blog (by some definitions and accounts). The Ur-blogger in this version of history was Jorn Barger and the blog was Robot Wisdom. Barger wrote, "I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff." The Journal article has statements from a baker's dozen of bloggers and/or blogwatchers and a handful of videos of bloggers talking about how and why they do what they do.
Wow amazing coincidence (Score:5, Funny)
Slashbot Rhyme (Score:5, Funny)
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Credit where it's due. (Score:3, Informative)
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And their moms STILL don't read their blogs. (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Wow amazing coincidence (Score:5, Interesting)
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What's a "personal feelings" blog? Do you simply mean "personal" blog? I'm not sure how you can sum up all personal blogs/journals/etc.
I actually find the stand-alone political and technical blogs, where people think they are posting insightful material to the world, but actually hardly anyone ever reads them, to be the sign of immaturity. Indeed it's ironic that the so-called "personal" blogs often get a
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Your last sentence pretty much defines what a blog is. So how are they not "really blogs"?
Oblig maddox (Score:2, Informative)
I thought it was Dave Winer that invented it (Score:2)
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Oh, please, it's much older than 10 years (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like the making of a Futurama joke (Score:2)
Though I think that may be too obscure for watchers. (Hint SNL skit)
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He also typical of most bloggers: (Score:4, Insightful)
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1997, crap, he's right. (Score:1)
http://www.salsamontreal.com/xelaworld/mnl/qrave.
Overinflated self-importance, however... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Sounds about right (Score:4, Interesting)
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April 4 - My son barfed on the curtains
April 7 - My son said "daddy" for the first time
May 2 - My wife forced me to change Billy's diapers. Ohhh, they stunk to high hell
May 4 - Little Billy uttered a bunch of strange sounds, something like, "glergg zhlagg blog". Thus, I will name this website "blog", in honor of his utterances. I hope it catches on.
Not quite the first (Score:5, Informative)
Mod parent up! (Score:3, Funny)
I just lost my 5 mod-points because I didn't use them, otherwise I'd mod you up.
Actually november 1994 (Score:1)
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Suck.com (Score:2)
http://www.suck.com/daily/archive/1995.html [suck.com]
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Unintentional DDoS (Score:1)
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If they did invent blogging, that's certainly how I'd repay them.
It's important to note blogs != online diaries (Score:3, Interesting)
Online diaries [wikipedia.org] are several years older.
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Ziggy, we need more information!!! (Score:1, Funny)
SlashBlog (Score:1)
hey..! (Score:1)
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How much I don't know, I only started reading it 10 years ago.
more than 10 years... (Score:1)
Protip (Score:1)
What.....?! (Score:1)
Someone should smack the crap out of the idiot who made that claim. That, and never let him write another 'article' again.
The only way blogging could be 10 years old is if "Blogging" is a kid that was born 10 years ago.
*sigh* I wonder what real articles the SlashDot editors passed up for this story on a bullsh*t claim.
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Jerry Pournelle (Score:1)
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ [jerrypournelle.com]
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I wish I had mod points to day I'd MOD you up. He and others really go back before this on BBS's too.
He claims he had the first one though.
mmm not really (Score:4, Informative)
They are at least one case of blogging before the reported originator.
Carmack wrote about "Stupid Testarossa Adventures" in addition to the ongoings at Id. American wrote about "Stupid Contests I Get People to Do" in addition to the ongogings at Id. Others "blogged" too. Tastefully or not. Steed wrote about his stripper inspired 3d models. Cash wrote something too. Brian Hook was there writing as well, in addition to others I have forgotten.
This all was documented at BluesNews.con where you could read their plan files on a daily basis.
They're certainly older than that. (Score:3, Informative)
Then again it all depends on what you really consider a "blog". Some people consider web logs and blogs to be different things (which may also be different from a journal, or a news site, etc). So the entire idea of pinpointing a "start" to it is sort of silly, given how similar they all tend to be.
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not to brag but i've been "blogging" for eleven (Score:2)
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(and I began my blog in 2001)
shit moves around (Score:2)
Eight more years (Score:2, Funny)
Blogs predate the web (Score:1)
I imagine the first such use was probably back in the '60s, maybe older.
Paper public diaries are probably as old as paper, and "what I did today" fireside chats are probably as old as fire.
History of blogging (Score:3, Informative)
This puts the blog much further back in time. I personally believe the credit for first blog goes to mod.ber, a moderated newsgroup from 1983 that was effectively similar to boing boing today. Brian E Redman (after whom the group was named) and friends found interesting threads out on the net and posted pointers to them in mod.ber
Most blog definitions also require it be serial. There is some debate as to whether the people who kept running commentaries in their
It's possible that my own rec.humor.funny/netfunny.com may be the longest still-running blog. It is 20 years in two weeks. It is serial, started on the pre-HTML web and like other blogs, has a solo editorial voice.
Some of this history can be found at Wikipedia's blog page [wikipedia.org] and I wrote about RHF's history as the oldest blog [netfunny.com] with pointers to other contenders.
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(disclaimer: above link does not contain content relevant to this post... or does it?)
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How quickly the WELL has been forgotten. (Score:3, Insightful)
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one thing about the text BBS's - they are so much faster and easier to use than modern forum websites...
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Wrong (Score:1)
I'm certain there was somebody doing it even earlier than that.
I _stopped_ blogging in 2001 (Score:2)
what's new? (Score:2)
The NCSA What's New index does not seem to be archived any longer at UIUC, but rather at Netscape. That's puzzling to me, since I think it's an absolutely essential part of the hi
Daily Illuminator (Score:2)
I was "blogging" before that... (Score:2)
To continue the spirit of blogging... (Score:1)
Umm... Lileks? (Score:2)
There's at least one well known blog predating that; James Lileks started the Bleat in February 1997.
Justin Hall cited by some sources (Score:2)
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Blog: definition (Score:2)
ie: Morons invaded the web approximately 10 years ago.
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ie: Morons invaded the web approximately 10 years ago.
So you're a moron if you use existing tools rather than reinventing the wheel yourself?
Even those of us who can FTP and build our own webpage still find it immensely easier to use existing blog software.
I do hope you're reading Slashdot through telnet (preferably a telnet application you wrote yourself in machine code...)
BBS? (Score:2)
And surely someone had a TurboGopher or ARPAnet "site" that posted the latest news?
Or does "blog" mean something more than "shared journal"?
I call bullshit! (Score:2, Insightful)
The difference is that back in the day, you had to be well-versed in the technology to pull it off. You couldn't just download Wordpress, wear a yuppie shirt and call yourself a genius back then, you had to write your own scripts/software, or do it by hand with HTML and a whole lot of patience.
I know I was doing it, with a randy assortment of little management apps and batch files (I was a DOS geek at the time). My d
Blogging is way older... just different names (Score:2)
I kept an online diary older than this "date". Was it called a blog? No, it was collected ramblings, pretty much the same as today. Was it a blog? I have not really changed since I started writing my occasional entries in ~ 95 or so, so yes, it's blogging.
Andrew
I started my first one in 1999 (Score:2)
I first blogged from Palo Alto in 1995, possibly.. (Score:2)