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For blogs in particular - this came after both geocities and livejournal. Folks had the ability to host their own websites with relative ease and to write a po
by munk-a 6y ago
For blogs in particular - this came after both geocities and livejournal. Folks had the ability to host their own websites with relative ease and to write a post history that other folks could subscribe and comment on. Blogging as a verb and Blogs as a noun really came into their own when folks decided that this sort of journal was a common enough task (and shared hosts like live journal lacked enough features) that software to easily throw together a stream of articles had common value.
That is, at least, if my knowledge of the series of events is off. Livejournal existing is about when I got into the web but that predated blogs (and particularly bloggers in the context of investigative journalism) becoming a term by quite a fair bit.
- allenu 6y agoI think you're right about the timeline. I do remember livejournal being around before Blogger, which is around when "blogging" became a term. I remember getting into a few people's web-based online diaries in the late '90s and definitely some folks used geocities to host their journals. I remember using it myself to post whatever nonsense I was doing to share with friends.
- jaredsohn 6y agoYou could use the finger command on users and read their .plan files even earlier than that. Quake developers were famous for those. https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_1999.pdf https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_19...