Yes, run for the hills. It is that time of the year again. It is the time of the year again. Smile
Someone just made a search using Google for "who created blogs."
When you do that search Wikipedia is number one and ShowMeBlog is number two on the list. The ShowMeBlog link takes you to my January 9, 2006 post here "Who Invented the Blog?"
If you read my blogs you know that Wikipedia is my source of all knowledge. Hell, it is my religion. Smile
What does Wikipedia say about the subject of who invented blogs? You of course are one of the very few people in the world that know the truth. Think how special that makes you. Who invented blogs? OK all ready on the count of three: Jim Howard!
"History
Main article: History of blogging timeline
Main article: Online diary
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[58] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[59][60][61] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[62]
Origins
Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists[63] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[64] as is Jerry Pournelle.[citation needed] Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs.[65][66] Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.
Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services."
I have talked about this subject a few times in the past gang. Smile
I even made a YouTube video on the subject: "Did Jim Howard Invent the Blog?" I made that video in August of 2007. Only 1,385 people have viewed it.
One thing you can bet money on and make book on and that is that Wikipedia is wrong in their post. Justin Hall, Jerry Pournelle and Dave Winer are not even close to being the first blogger. I was doing it in 1982. Those guys were doing it in 1994 or 1995! I was even written up in a magazine about my blog in 1984! (No the writer did not call it a "blog" because the word was not created at that time.)
So do NOT bet your money that Jim Howard was the first blogger. But you can bet that these guys listed were not the first blogger. You can bet that Jim Howard was blogging in 1982 (June of 1982).
Now if you bet that Jim Howard invented blogging you are not going to win. There is only one person that says Jim Howard invented blogging and that is Jim Howard. Not even people that were reading my blog in 1982 think that I invented blogging. Not even my family think that I invented blogging.
I am 69 years old and one day there will not be anyone alive that believes I invented blogging.
There is, of course, Ric Manning the author of the article in "Link-Up" magazine. He wrote in 1984 in about my blog Howard's Notebook "…One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communications. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard's fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks…"
I contacted Ric Manning a few years ago and asked him if he who invented blogs? Ric is a newspaper publisher/editor and he said that he felt that I may very well be the inventor of blogging.
Who do you think invented blogs? When do you think blogs were invented?
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