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The History of BloggingThe history of blogging starts back further than most people realize. Although modern blogging has been around for at least 9 years, the origins were way back, before PCs became a familiar item. Before the Beginning: 1983–1990Back in the early days we had something called Usenet, a serial medium. It had a newsgroup that was moderated. CompuServe was also one of the original newsgroups that became popular.The posting in the newsgroup was in the control of a single individual of group. These newsgroups were really just moderated discussions. Still, they were the forerunners of todays blogging (as well as user forums). The History of Blogging and the First Real Blogs: 1994–2001What happened was the old online diary that people would keep track of their personal things kind of turned into the blog we know today. The old writers of the online diaries had many different names they called themselves. For example, they would describe themselves as diarists, journalists, journalers and even escribitionists!Very early on, weblogs meant tracking the updates to a website. What happened over time was that new tools allowed the automatic posting of articles on the web, in a reverse chronological order. This made it simple for the average person, so anyone could get in on the action. This is what came to be known as the blogs we have today. One of the oldest weblogs is Scripting News, started in 1997, and still going strong today! Take a look back at some of the posts from way back when -- they are fascinating. Here is one I hadn't heard of as an early blog. Called Wearable Wireless Webcam (no longer in operation), it consisted of someone's personal life being recorded with text, live pictures and video. They used a wearable computer devise called an EyeTap to transmit the pictures and video live. This type of blogging got a new name "sousveillance" combining the video and text into a journal, some of which were used as evidence for legal matters. Jorn Barger, in December 1997, came up with the term "weblog". And now the person the originated the "blog" started it as a joke by making the phrase we blog on a weblog he called Peterme.com sometime in 1999. It stuck as the new noun meaning of the weblog and meant to post to your weblog. Although off to a slow start, people picked up on blogging very fast. In 1999 what helped was the first of the hosted blog tools. This helped blogging grow in popularity. You ready for more? Check out the next history of blogging page where we'll talk about the years 2001 to present...and beyond! 
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