The history of blogs

Slide 1: Blogs The history so far…

Slide 2:  January 1994  December 1997  April 1999  August 1999  January 2000  July 2000  February 2002  August 2002  December 2002 Timeline  March 2003  June 2003  September 2003  January 2004  March 2004  December 2004  January 2005  May 2005  October 2005  December 2005  August 2006

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

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

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

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

Slide 8: January 2000 Boing Boing is born.

Slide 9: July 2000 AndrewSullivan.com launches.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slide 17: January 2004 Nick Denton launches Wonkette.

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

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

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

Slide 21: May 2005 The Huffington Post launches.

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

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Slide 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.

Slide 25: August 2006

Slide 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