The document provides a timeline of significant milestones in the history of blogging from January 1994 to August 2006. It highlights key events such as the creation of the first blog by Justin Hall, the coining of the term 'weblog,' the launch of popular platforms like Blogger and Gawker, and the rise of blog advertising. The timeline illustrates the rapid growth of blogs, with millions of new blogs and postings emerging each day by 2006.

1. Blogs The history so far…

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4. January 1994 Swarthmore student Justin Hall first blog, Links.net .

5. December 1997 Jorn Barger coins term “ Weblog ” for “logging the Web.”

6. April 1999 Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.”

7. August 1999 Blogger rolls out first popular, free blog-creation service.

8. January 2000 Boing Boing is born.

9. July 2000 AndrewSullivan.com launches.

10. February 2002 Heather Armstrong fired for discussing job on blog, Dooce . “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.”

11. August 2002 Nick Denton launches Gizmodo , first in what will become a blog empire.

12. August 2002 Blogads launches, the first broker of blog advertising.

13. December 2002 Gawker launches, igniting the gossip-blog boom.

14. March 2003 “ Salam Pax ,” an anonymous Iraqi blogger, gains worldwide audience during the Iraq war.

15. June 2003 Google launches AdSense , ads match blog content.

16. September 2003 Jason Calacanis founds Weblogs , Inc . , which eventually grows into a portfolio of 85 blogs .

17. January 2004 Nick Denton launches Wonkette .

18. March 2004 Calacanis poaches Gizmodo writer Peter Rojas from Denton.

19. December 2004 Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “Word of the Year.”

20. January 2005 Study finds that 32 million Americans read blogs.

21. May 2005 The Huffington Post launches .

22. October 2005 Calacanis sells his blogs to AOL for $25 million.

23. December 2005 Estimated $100 million worth of blog ads sold 2005 .

24. August 2006 Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs. 175,000 new weblogs created each day, on average, more than 2 blogs created each second. Total posting volume about 1.6 Million postings per day, or 18.6 posts per second.

25. August 2006

26. Credits The Early Years - A timeline of blogging at The New York Magazine by Clive Thompson Dave Sifry , CEO of Technorati ( State of the Blogosphere , August 2006 ). De ontwikkeling van het blog by Erno Hannink at enthousiasmeren.nl