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Blogging Is 10 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-thereabouts dept.

Several readers sent us notice of an article in the Wall Street Journal in advance of the tenth anniversary of the blog (by some definitions and accounts). The Ur-blogger in this version of history was Jorn Barger and the blog was Robot Wisdom. Barger wrote, "I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff." The Journal article has statements from a baker's dozen of bloggers and/or blogwatchers and a handful of videos of bloggers talking about how and why they do what they do.

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  1. Wow amazing coincidence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 is also the mental age of people who blog.

    1. Re:Wow amazing coincidence by daeg · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Depends on the kind of blog. A personal feelings blog, akin to most Live Journals/My Space/etc? I agree. Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.

  2. Oh, please, it's much older than 10 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    We all know Dr. Doogie Howser, MD, invented blogging back in 1989.

  3. Slashbot Rhyme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I make a dash to the Slash to the D-O-T Coz them news for nerds makes sense to me So let this serve as a warning to the spammers and trolls You may have a fat pipe but you ain't got bawls. There's a new manifesto by ESR And the stats of the watts of a hybrid car I gots love for Perens and miguel, et al And I voted CowboyNeal on the Slashdot Poll I'm Microsoft bashin' like every single day Coz the OS got holes and Exploder's teh gay Now SCO's talkin' trash so I give firefox a ride To reply as a Coward so I can hate on McBride I will flame you with language I won't say to your face And I bet you can't guess who gots all your base There's one way to know if your server is rotting Just post a link and you'll get a slashdotting You can mod me down coz I'm a karma whore And I'm a decorated veteran of a recent flame war Where they fought about an app with a K or a G And a heated debate on what was meant by "Free" As a slashbot, when Linux receives a threat, My palms begin to sweat and my evil bit is set You best believe I'll be posting a rant And I'll be surfin' Slashdot 'til my mom says I can't.

  4. Overinflated self-importance, however... by nuzak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... much more than 10 years old.

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    Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
  5. Not quite the first by nemerrle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Umm, Steve Jackson (of GURPS fame) has had a daily blog since December 1994: http://www.sjgames.com/ill/1994/ill-dec94.html

  6. Re:Unintentional DDoS by slughead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing says, "Thanks for inventing blogging!" like taking down your server

    If they did invent blogging, that's certainly how I'd repay them.

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