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>I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging Didn't blogging start on wordpress/blogger/livejournal?

tnorthcutt 9y ago
Movable Type preceded WordPress by a couple of years or so, FWIW.
- adventured 9y ago
  LiveJournal predated Movable Type by two years.
  - jmspring 9y ago
    Static websites with blogs/regular entries predated even livejournal
    - originalsimba 9y ago
      This. Blogging predates all blogging services, platforms, and software. Blogging was invented by early web pioneers. The corporations followed in the Gold Rush of the 1990s dot-com bubble, and they've been trying to monetize our social lives ever since. Nowadays, thanks to marketing machines and television talking heads, nobody has "websites" anymore, we have "blogs".
      - infectoid 9y ago
        I think I first blogged in the early 2000's with Blog Spot (which became Blogger). It was great.
  - bmelton 9y ago
    Finger's got them all beat by a few decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
    - Jaruzel 9y ago
      id Software used finger heavily during the 90s with regular .plan updates. There's an archive of John Carmack's .plan files here: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
- jwilk 9y ago
  But not the others: 1999 LiveJournal 1999 Blogger 2001 Movable Type 2003 WordPress
  - seriocomic 9y ago
    B2/Cafelog (from where Mike/Matt forked to WordPress) was also 2001. I dumped MT (due to my Perl-aversion) for B2 and then onto the WordPress fork when B@ founder Valdrighi stopped active development of it.
  - walrus01 9y ago
    while not blog "software", one could say that the contents of an html directory exposed by, for example, http://weirdmachinehostname.university.edu/~username/ http://weirdmachinehostname.university.edu/~username/ were the earliest blogs. Hand crafted HTML homepages and such.
    - eecc 9y ago
      Hmm nah, I remember “blogging” explicitly meant drafting and publishing posts directly from a website form, as opposed to crafting HTML documents and uploading them over FTP (which was what people did at the time and obviously complained about.)
      - kgwgk 9y ago
        The word "blog" appeared a few months before the infrastructure to draft and publish posts directly from a website form. And the concept of diaries/weblogs that it designated was a few years older.
  - Jaruzel 9y ago
    Whilst not an open blog platform, CmdrTaco of Slashdot claims his Slashdot prototype 'Chips and Dips' which he created in 1997, was one of the first 'blogs'.
redwall_hp 9y ago
Links.net and Scripting.com were blogs before the term existed. And Movable Type, Greymatter, and numerous other blogging tools existed long before WordPress, which was relatively late to the game (and technically a fork of a prior project). Nowadays, we also have more modern tools like Jekyll, Ghost or whatever for blogging.

tnorthcutt 9y ago

Movable Type preceded WordPress by a couple of years or so, FWIW.

adventured 9y ago
LiveJournal predated Movable Type by two years.
- jmspring 9y ago
  Static websites with blogs/regular entries predated even livejournal
  - originalsimba 9y ago
    This. Blogging predates all blogging services, platforms, and software. Blogging was invented by early web pioneers. The corporations followed in the Gold Rush of the 1990s dot-com bubble, and they've been trying to monetize our social lives ever since. Nowadays, thanks to marketing machines and television talking heads, nobody has "websites" anymore, we have "blogs".
    - infectoid 9y ago
      I think I first blogged in the early 2000's with Blog Spot (which became Blogger). It was great.
- bmelton 9y ago
  Finger's got them all beat by a few decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
  - Jaruzel 9y ago
    id Software used finger heavily during the 90s with regular .plan updates. There's an archive of John Carmack's .plan files here: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
jwilk 9y ago
But not the others: 1999 LiveJournal 1999 Blogger 2001 Movable Type 2003 WordPress
- seriocomic 9y ago
  B2/Cafelog (from where Mike/Matt forked to WordPress) was also 2001. I dumped MT (due to my Perl-aversion) for B2 and then onto the WordPress fork when B@ founder Valdrighi stopped active development of it.
- walrus01 9y ago
  while not blog "software", one could say that the contents of an html directory exposed by, for example, http://weirdmachinehostname.university.edu/~username/ http://weirdmachinehostname.university.edu/~username/ were the earliest blogs. Hand crafted HTML homepages and such.
  - eecc 9y ago
    Hmm nah, I remember “blogging” explicitly meant drafting and publishing posts directly from a website form, as opposed to crafting HTML documents and uploading them over FTP (which was what people did at the time and obviously complained about.)
    - kgwgk 9y ago
      The word "blog" appeared a few months before the infrastructure to draft and publish posts directly from a website form. And the concept of diaries/weblogs that it designated was a few years older.
- Jaruzel 9y ago
  Whilst not an open blog platform, CmdrTaco of Slashdot claims his Slashdot prototype 'Chips and Dips' which he created in 1997, was one of the first 'blogs'.

redwall_hp 9y ago

Links.net and Scripting.com were blogs before the term existed. And Movable Type, Greymatter, and numerous other blogging tools existed long before WordPress, which was relatively late to the game (and technically a fork of a prior project). Nowadays, we also have more modern tools like Jekyll, Ghost or whatever for blogging.