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July 16, 2007
The Apple Core: 10th Anniversary of Blogging? Try 12th...
The Wall Street Journal published a story this weekend about how blogging just turned 10 years old in which they give credit to Jorn Barger for starting the first blog in 1997. WSJ also mentions David Winer, father of Dave's Scripting News, and Cameron Barrett, who started CamWorld saying "by widespread consensus, 1997 is a reasonable point at which to mark the emergence of the blog as a distinct life-form."
Duncan Riley's notes that Justin Hall began an online journal with dated daily entries on January 10, 1996 (which Wikipedia agrees with) and that both Hall and Dave Winer started in 1996.
I take issue with both of their reports because there were a number of people blogging before this and I'm one of them.
Read more about it in my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
Posted by Jason D. O'Grady at July 16, 2007 8:47 AM
Category: The Apple Core
Tags: Blog, Blogging, The Apple Core
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Comments
I want to drop my thoughts on this quickly before people accuse you of self promoting your ego...
I agree with what you are saying... and you're only helping to establish a pivotal date in the particular timeline of blogging. So baravo for helping to establish the fact that sometimes before certain fads break out of the underground they have had a humble beginning where no one knew really existed.
Congrats on helping to define the blogisphere way back 12 years ago!
-B
Posted by: Anonymous at July 16, 2007 11:38 AM
I can attest to this fact - one of the first sites I began regularly visiting in around 1996 on my buggy Powerbook 190cs (and 14.4 modem!) was O'grady's Powerpage.
Posted by: docbrown88 at July 16, 2007 1:11 PM
Can't argue with the truth. Plus you can't believe everything the WSJ puts into print anyway.
My first Powerpage experience was in 96 also, on a Performa 575. It led to a slightly used Powerbook 520c by the end of the year - and about $300 for 16mb of RAM. Ever since then it's been the poorhouse for me.
Thanks for supplying me with the Apple news/rumor fix that I crave.
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at July 18, 2007 2:56 AM
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