This presentation shows some of the important events in blogging history, from how it all started and evolved in USENET until the present.

1. HOW BLOGGING
HAS EVOLVED
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Is Blogging Dead:
Over Time

2. 1983–1993
Usenet featured a
moderated newsgroup
allowing individuals to
post in the group.
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3. 1994
First online *diarists started posting
their online diaries.
Claudio Pinhanez's Open Diary was the
fist web page in an online diary format
published at the MIT Media Lab
website from November 14, 1994 until
1996.
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*diarists = journalists = journalers = escribitionists

4. 1994
Justin Hall began eleven years
of personal online diary-writing.
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dubbed by New York Times Magazine as
the "founding father of personal bloggers"

5. 1994
sousveillance: semi-
automated blogging
with live video
together with text also
started to be used in
websites.
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sousveillance

6. 1996
The book, 24 Hours in
Cyberspace was published. This
captured personal profiles of
the people involved in early web
pages. Eventually, online
diaries caught the attention of
the media.
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7. 1997
This term was coined by Jorn Barger, creator of the
website Robot Wisdom which contained a "log" of his
internet activity.
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"WEBLOG"

8. 1998
More and more resources were
created especially for bloggers.
OPEN DIARY: a platform with an
open community approach to
blogging using a membership model
that allowed people to leave
comments on other peoples' works
was launched in October 1998.
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9. 1999
Weblog was shortened to "blog" by then
programmer 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.

10. 2000
Earliest video blogs were recorded
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11. 2001
Several political blogs emerged this year.
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12. 2002
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Blogs played a role in breaking, shaping, and
spinning news stories.

13. 2002
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This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers

14. 2002
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This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers
Technorati
was launched. This was one of the
first blog search engines

15. 2002
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This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers
Technorati
was launched. This was one of the
first blog search engines
Gawker
was launched. According to NYT, this
initiated the creation of gossip blogs.

16. 2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A few
months later, Google debuted Adsense.

17. 2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A few
months later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a business

18. 2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A few
months later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a business
PyraLabs (the creators of
Blogger) was acquired by Google

19. 2003
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Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A few
months later, Google debuted Adsense.
Blogging was becoming a business
PyraLabs (the creators of
Blogger) was acquired by Google
WORDPRESS
and TYPEPAD
were launched

20. 2004
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declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one of
the earliest video bloggers, Steve Garfield
Political blogs were becoming more prominent.

21. 2004
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declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one of
the earliest video bloggers, Steve Garfield
Political blogs were becoming more prominent.
2005
YouTube was launched.
Studies showed 32M
Americans read blogs

22. 2006
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Microblogging was born with Twitter co-founder
and CEO Jack Dorsey's first tweet

23. 2007
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Tumblr was launched for those “who feel they may
not have enough content or time to write a full
blog, yet still want to write and share links and
media.” - Josh Lowensohn, CNET
2008 Posterous was launched.

24. 2010
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11% of bloggers were earning primarily
from their blogs (Source: Technorati).
By the end of this year, the
blogosphere grew to 152M
ACTIVE BLOGS

25. 2012
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MEDIUM was launched.
LinkedIn recruited popular business
figures to guest blog on their
publishing platform.

26. 2013
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Blogs are ranked among the top five
“most trustworthy” sources of brand
information

27. 2016
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Automattic, the creators of Wordpress,
rolled out the .blog domain

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29. SOURCES:
http://www.becomeablogger.com/284
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/history-of-blogging#sm.000n00soy18gbelvqx01gdxmyg81t
http://technorati.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tm2013DIR1.pdf
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-blogging/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging

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