1994: The Founding Father of Personal Bloggers
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 5:04 am
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 afghanistan phone number material 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 for 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?
In 1994, then 19-year-old Justin Hall began sharing the dirty details of his afghanistan phone number material 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 for 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?