History Of Blogs

· Blogs- next logical creation after the advent of the Internet. Desire for more interaction.

· A by-product of the online diary. Justin Hall began personal “blogging” in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College- considered one of the earliest authors of this medium.

· “Weblog” was created by Jorn Barger in 1997. Short form “blog” created by Peter Merholz  in 1999 on his blog www.peterme.com .  That same year www.pitas.com, the first free build-your-own-weblog tool launched- number of blogs significantly increased. 

· Open Diary launched October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of diaries. Innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries. http://www.opendiary.com/

· Original blogs were link-driven sites. Blogs only created by people who already knew how to make a website and write in HTML code. This blog was created by using www.blogspot.com.

· As of February 2011 – Over 156 million blogs. Blogs now impact everything from one’s personal life, to the corporate world, to global society at large