The term "weblog" was coined in 1997 to describe logging the web, with the short form "blog" coined in 1999. Early blogs evolved from online diaries where people kept running accounts of their personal lives. Justin Hall is recognized as one of the earliest bloggers starting in 1994. Blog popularity rose in the late 1990s and early 2000s with platforms like LiveJournal, Pitas.com, and Blogger, and their role became more mainstream through political commentary in 2002. Today there are over 200 million public blogs across personal, social, political, and corporate genres on many platforms and devices, ranging from personal commentary to online advertising.

2. • The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn
Barger, to describe the process of
"logging the web” on December 17,
1997.
• The short form, "blog," was coined by
Peter Merholz (“we blog”) on May 1999.
• Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as
both a noun and a verb and devised the
term "blogger" .

3. ORIGIN

4. • 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 earlier bloggers.

5. • Jerry Pournelle and Dave Winer's
Scripting News is also credited with
being one of the older and longer
running weblogs.
• Surveillance started in 1994.

6. • Early example of a
"diary" style blog
consisting of text
and images
transmitted
wirelessly in real
time from a
wearable computer
with headup display,

7. Rise in popularity
• The Misanthropic Bitch began in 1997
• Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in
October 1998, which soon grew to
thousands of online diaries.
• Brad Fitzpatrick started Live Journal in
March 1999.

8. • Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July
1999 as an easier alternative to maintaining a
"news page" on a Web site, followed by
Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more
on a personal diary community.
• Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs)
launched blogger.com in August 1999
(purchased by Google in February 2003)

9. • Rise in importance
of blogs came in
2002, when many
bloggers focused
on comments by
U.S. Senate
Majority Leader
Trent Lott

10. • By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly
mainstream through political consultants and
news services
• By 2006, the coming of twitter
revolutionalized micro blogging

11. • Today blogs covers almost all platforms
from personal to social to political to
corporate.
• It encompasses all genre in many forms and
from various devices.
• Its function ranges from commentary to
personal and to online advertising.
• And now there are more than 200 Million
public blogs in existence,77 Million
Tumblr,56.6 Million WordPress.