History of Blogging

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1979	Usenet is born	Usenet is born as a decentralized network of discussion boards.
01/01/1983	mod.ber is started	The mod.ber newsgroup is started on Usenet. It was started as a place for its founder, Brian Redman, and his friends to post interesting things they discovered online and offline. While it was not called a Blog, it had many characteristics of modern blogs. It ceased operation after 8 months.
01/01/1986	Listserv begins operation	Listserv is born. Listserv is an email discussion group.
11/12/1990	First proposal for creating the World Wide Web.	Tim Berners-Lee writes his proposal for creating what would become the World Wide Web titled, "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a Hypertext Project".
11/03/1992	Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first Web Page	Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first web page. Click here to see it.
01/01/1994	John Carmack of id Software publishes his gaming updates	John Carmack, programmer of Wolf 3D, Doom, & Quake, begins using the .plan text file on his internet account to keep gamers up to date on his projects. He continues to use the .plan updates until switching to his WWW blog on December 31, 2004.
01/01/1994	Justin's Home Page is created	Justin Hall creates what is considered the first Blog.
04/01/1997	Scripting News is started	Dave Winer starts Scripting News. His company, Userland releases blog and website publishing software...Frontier, Manila, and Radio Userland.
12/01/1997	The term Weblog is used for the first time	John Barger starts "Robot Wisdom Weblog". The term Weblog is soon coined as the term to use for online journals.
10/01/1998	Open Diary is launched	Open Diary becomes the first online blog system that allowed readers to comment on blog posts.
03/01/1999	LiveJournal Blog Service is started	Brad Fitzpatrick starts LiveJournal.
03/15/1999	RSS 0.90 is released by Netscape	Wanting to use an XML format to distribute news, stories and information, Netscape develops and releases the RSS framework.
08/01/1999	Blogger.com is launched	Pyra Labs creates and launches blogger.com. Blogger.com becomes the most popular blooging site and soon helps to mainstream blogging.
01/11/2001	First MP3 file sent over RSS	Dave Winer send a Grateful Dead song via a RSS enclosure. This was the predecessor of the first Podcast.
02/01/2002	First known instance of a blogger fired for blogging about her job	Heather Armstrong is fired after discussing her job on her blog.
08/01/2002	Gizmodo is launched	Gizmodo is launched. This is the beginning of the first big blog empire.
06/01/2003	Google Adsense is launched	Google launches its online advertising system designed to match ads to blog content.
09/01/2003	RSS feed framework is specifically altered to support audio enclosures	Dave Winer updates the RSS format to support audio enclosures. The RSS feed was originally released for NPR Talkshow Host Christopher Lydon's blog.
09/10/2003	Weblogs, Inc. is started	John Calacanis launches Weblogs, Inc. The company eventually grows to 85 high profile blog sites.
10/01/2003	First Bloggercon Conference	Dave Winer and others host the first Bloggercon Conference.
11/01/2003	iPodder is released	Adam Curry releases his script for moving MP3 files from Userland Radio's RSS feed to iTunes.
01/01/2004	First Video Podcast	Steve Garfield starts the first video podcast.
02/12/2004	Podcasting is born	Writer Ben Hammersley suggests three terms (Audioblogging, Podcasting, & GuerillaMedia) to use for the process of portable listening of audioblogs. Guess which term won out.
09/01/2004	Apple forces the iPodder Project to shut down	Apple sends a Cease and Desist letter to stop iSpider's iPodder Project.
12/01/2004	Blog is the Word of the Year	Merriam-Webster declares "Blog" as the Word of the Year.
01/01/2005	A study reveals the popularity of Blogging	A study is released revealing that 32 million Americans read blogs.
03/01/2005	First blogger given credentials to the White House	Garrett Graff becomes the first blogger to receive crendentials for the daily White House briefings.
10/01/2005	John Calacanis makes $25 million	John Calacanis sells his blog network to AOL for $25,000,000.
12/01/2005	$100 million in blog ads	Over $100 million in blog ads are sold over the year.
08/08/2006	First Microblogging site is launched	Twitter becomes the first Microblogging site.