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Wikipedia has a page on the history of blogging, and indeed Slashdot is there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
by benatkin 8y ago
Wikipedia has a page on the history of blogging, and indeed Slashdot is there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging That doesn't mean that it inspired people to convert their personal websites to blogs, though. While people did see chronological posts, that doesn't mean the idea of converting their websites to that format was put into their heads. There's a big difference between Slashdot and a personal website.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoOnly one data point but I made my first blog inspired by Slashdot. I wrote a CGI script that read flat text file posts to make the front page, then when you clicked a link, another script wrapped the chosen post text file in a basic HTML template (eg added a header and footer, that's it). Making that (and clones customised for friends), got me into web development and ended up in a 20 year career.