1983–1993Usenet featured amoderated newsgroupallowing individuals topost in the group.
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1994First online *diarists started postingtheir online diaries.Claudio Pinhanez's Open Diary was thefist web page in an online diary formatpublished at the MIT Media Labwebsite from November 14, 1994 until1996.
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*diarists = journalists = journalers = escribitionists
1994Justin Hall began eleven yearsof personal online diary-writing.
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dubbed by New York Times Magazine asthe "founding father of personal bloggers"
1994sousveillance: semi-automated bloggingwith live videotogether with text alsostarted to be used inwebsites.
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sousveillance
1996The book, 24 Hours inCyberspace was published. Thiscaptured personal profiles ofthe people involved in early webpages. Eventually, onlinediaries caught the attention ofthe media.
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1997
This term was coined by Jorn Barger, creator of thewebsite Robot Wisdom which contained a "log" of hisinternet activity.
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"WEBLOG"
1998More and more resources werecreated especially for bloggers.OPEN DIARY: a platform with anopen community approach toblogging using a membership modelthat allowed people to leavecomments on other peoples' workswas launched in October 1998.
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1999
Weblog was shortened to "blog" by thenprogrammer Peter Merholz. Blogger, LiveJournal, and Xanga were launched.
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"BLOG"blogs started becoming popular this year with
the creation of these blog hosting tools.
2002
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This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers
Technorati was launched. This was one of thefirst blog search engines
2002
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This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers
Technorati was launched. This was one of thefirst blog search engines
Gawker was launched. According to NYT, thisinitiated the creation of gossip blogs.
2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A fewmonths later, Google debuted Adsense.
2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A fewmonths later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a business
2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A fewmonths later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a businessPyraLabs (the creators ofBlogger) was acquired by Google
2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A fewmonths later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a businessPyraLabs (the creators ofBlogger) was acquired by Google
WORDPRESSand TYPEPADwere launched
2004
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declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one ofthe earliest video bloggers, Steve GarfieldPolitical blogs were becoming more prominent.
2004
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declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one ofthe earliest video bloggers, Steve GarfieldPolitical blogs were becoming more prominent.
2005 YouTube was launched.Studies showed 32MAmericans read blogs
2006
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Microblogging was born with Twitter co-founderand CEO Jack Dorsey's first tweet
2007
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Tumblr was launched for those “who feel they maynot have enough content or time to write a fullblog, yet still want to write and share links andmedia.” - Josh Lowensohn, CNET
2008 Posterous was launched.
2010
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11% of bloggers were earning primarilyfrom their blogs (Source: Technorati).By the end of this year, theblogosphere grew to 152M
ACTIVE BLOGS
2012
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MEDIUM was launched.LinkedIn recruited popular businessfigures to guest blog on theirpublishing platform.
2013
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Blogs are ranked among the top five“most trustworthy” sources of brandinformation
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