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Movable Type preceded WordPress by a couple of years or so, FWIW.
by tnorthcutt 9y ago
Movable Type preceded WordPress by a couple of years or so, FWIW.
- adventured 9y agoLiveJournal predated Movable Type by two years.
- jmspring 9y agoStatic websites with blogs/regular entries predated even livejournal
- originalsimba 9y agoThis. 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 agoI think I first blogged in the early 2000's with Blog Spot (which became Blogger). It was great.
- bmelton 9y agoFinger'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 agoid 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 agoBut not the others: 1999 LiveJournal 1999 Blogger 2001 Movable Type 2003 WordPress
- seriocomic 9y agoB2/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 agowhile 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 agoHmm 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 agoThe 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 agoWhilst 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'.