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But not the others: 1999 LiveJournal 1999 Blogger 2001 Movable Type 2003 WordPress
by jwilk 9y ago
But 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'.