Well I did a search on the History of the Blog.
Dave Winer wrote The History of Weblogs in 2001 and he says that the first blog was "...The first weblog was the first website, http://info.cern.ch/, the site built by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. From this page TBL pointed to all the new sites as they came online. Luckily, the content of this site has been archived at the World Wide Web Consortium. (Thanks to Karl Dubost for the link.)..."
Now if you say that a "blog" has to have been on the web. Then the first blog would have had to be in about 1992. But I think being on line should be all that is needed. Remember back in 1982 people used their modem and called into Howard's Notebook and my modem picked up the connection and then they moved around my system and I had a "blog", not called that of course, on line for them to read. Remember Ric Manning wrote about my site and commented on my blog in "Link-Up" magazine in 1984.
Now there is a site called "Blogumentary" and they talk about the history of blogs. I have not had time to read it all ...but they seem to say.. that the blog started sort of with LiveJournal (1999) but that the blog in fact goes back into history and that it is just a diary.
A Brief History of Weblogs by Malloery Jensen
The above is interesting but not sure it adds to who started the first blog or my debate with myself.
She says a blog is: "... a blog is someone's online record of the Web sites he or she visits..."
I do not agree that a blog has to fall into that settings. But what I did in 1982 was my comments, news, stories, comments from others, and links to other links (BBS links).
Blogs - a short history seems to line up with some of the others in saying that the first blog was in 1992. I know that is wrong.
Well I say the first blog was in June of 1982. It was on Howard's Notebook. The first blog was in the United States. The first blog was in Missouri. I say the author and inventor of the first blog was: Jim Howard
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