THE WORD ‘WEBLOG’ CELEBRATES ITS TENTH BIRTHDAY
December 18th 2007 10:01
The word ‘weblog’ was first coined ten years ago, on December 17 1997, by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page.
BBC News reports that the word was an abbreviation for the logging of interesting web sites that Barger featured on his regularly updated journal.
A decade on and blog-watching firm Technorati reports it is tracking more than 70 million web logs.
Official numbers are hard to find but some estimate that the size of the blogosphere in late 1998 encompassed only 23 sites. In 1999 the phenomenon took off as easy to use tools started to appear which made it much easier to write and maintain these sorts of websites. Also in 1999 the word ‘blog’ was coined as a shortened form of the original term.
- From MediaBlab
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