Define: blog
There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles on the Internet 'blog' is short for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their thoughts with the world. A person writing in the journal is called a 'blogger'. Bloggers write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and thus make the whole blog more interesting and useful.
History of the blog
Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a defined name, but their purpose was more or less the same as that of contemporary blogs. Here is a list of the first blogs:
- Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
- June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
- June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
- January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
- April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
- December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.
How do I start?
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