Blogging, like all established practices, has a long and interesting backstory. Let’s explore the history of blog and blogging.
Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. They were personal diaries, published online.
With the evolution of tools that made the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order easy, the publishing process changed.
It was now feasible to make publishing a blog accessible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today.
Browser-based software to publish your thought-stream is now a typical aspect of “blogging”. Blogs were once hosted on personal servers or shared hosts. Now blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services.
The world’s first blog was probably ‘Open Diary’ created by Dave Winer, though the term itself was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997.
At first, blogging like regular diary writing – just done on the Web for everyone to see. As it evolved, a blog became useful for a variety of other purposes.
You can explore more of the history of blog and blogging in other articles here.
