1994: The Founding Father of Personal Bloggers

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1994: The Founding Father of Personal Bloggers Starts (Over)Sharing
In 1994, then 19-year-old Justin Hall began sharing the dirty details of his personal life on his website, Justin’s Links From the Underground.

The History of Blogging Justin's Collection of Links
Of course, at this time, it wasn’t called a blog at all. His website mostly consisted of a list of links (hence the name) with some intermittent text woven in throughout. You can learn more about his story by watching his film, overshare.

It wasn’t actually until ten years after his Internet debut, that the New York Times dubbed Hall the “founding father of personal bloggers.”

1997: The Term “Weblog” is Coined
Believe it or not, the word “blog” actually has a very logical origin.

What’s the origin of the word blog? While most people call it a blog, the term is short afghanistan phone number resource weblog. A weblog is a log—or written documentation—that’s published on the World Wide Web. Put those two ideas together, and you get the term weblog.

Early American blogger, Jorn Barger, is credited as the person who came up with the word. Prior to that, people called blogs things like “online journals” or “online diaries.” The term “weblog” has a certain brevity and charm to it, and it wasn’t long before it became shortened even further to “blog.” Read even more in my article about What is a Blog?

1998: The First Blogging Platform (Open Diary) Launches
Now that there was a term for writing out your thoughts and sharing it with the world online, developers began to take notice and started creating platforms that were designed to allow everyday Internet users the ability to broadcast their own weblogs.

Open Diary Homepage in 1998 History of Blogging
A vital component of the history of blogging, Open Diary, debuted in 1998 as a blogging platform that not only provided space for users to blog, but also a space for members to comment on one another’s posts.

It was also right around this time that the word “weblog” became too cumbersome and the shortened and more modern slang term, “blog,” began to proliferate.

From this point forward, this vernacular would remain the same.