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The History of Blogs

By catchen2015

  • Dawning of the Web

    The internet, then called ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network), was first accessed by major universities after political approval. The dial-up connection was found to be "inadequate," even back then.
  • Period: to

    From the world wide web to personalized blogging

  • No More Snailmail!

    Ray Tomlinson adapts email for ARPANET. The choice of "@" was largely incidental--it happened to be an available symbol on his teletype.

  • Indexing the Internet

    Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage create the concept of archiving for the web. I guess these guys are to blame for Timeline.

  • Alas, the World Wide Web

    ARPANET became the World Wide Web following a protocol about information distribution.

  • Internet Becomes Commercial

    Delphi becomes the first commercial network to offer internet service. Up until this point, the internet had been primarily funded by the government.

  • The First Blog

    College student Justin Hall creates the first blog ever, Links.net

  • "Blog" is Word of the Year

    Merriam-Webster declares "blog" as word of the year.

  • Goodbye Federal Funding, Hello AOL

    The National Science Foundation withdrew its sponsorship to developing the internet. AOL came online.

  • Long and Behold, the "Weblog"

    Jorn Barger of the popular science blog, "Robot Wisdom," coins the term "weblog," to be shortened to "blog" in 1999 by Peter Merholz, a programmer.

  • Windows 98 Launches

    Microsoft releases Windows 98. A big hurrah for Bill Gates!

  • Blogger, or BlogSpot, is created

    Pyra Labs launches Blogger, one of the earliest blogging tools. It was later purchased by Google in 2003.

  • Dear Online Journal: The Weblog

    LiveJournal launches, allowing users to personalize web pages and upload content.

  • WordPress is Launched

    Matt Mullenweg creates WordPress, a blogging tool and content management system.

  • MySpace is Launched

    MySpace is founded by eUniverse. The famous Tom Anderson becomes its first president.

  • Facebook is Launched

    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook as a student in Harvard.

  • Huffington Post is Launched

    Arianna Huffington launches the Huffington Post, a news website and blog.

  • The Sartorialist is Launched

    Scott Schumann begins his photo documentation of New York City fashion as thesartorialist.com. It is considered to be the pioneer of street style blogs.

  • Amy Creyer Launches ChicagoStreetStyle.com

    Freshly out of college, Amy Creyer launches chicagostreetstyle.com with snapshots of Chicago natives.

  • Tumblr is Launched

    Tumblr is founded by David Karp. Since then, it has gained more than 40 million users.