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History of Blogging & a Bunch of Other Things

OK, so its Sunday and I felt like doing something a little different here.

Have we ever sat back and thought about when the first ‘blog’ started?

Do we know much about the History of Blogging?

I love history (history channel is great) and so I felt the urge to do a little “History of Blogging” and see what I could find, that I already didn’t know.

Let’s go all the way back to 1992 to start.

• March 18^th 1992 – Windows 3.1 Was Released.

• May 25^th 1992 – Jay Leno becomes the new host of NBC’s Tonight Show after Johnny Carson retires. (Jay Leno’s last video taping of the Tonight Show will be May 29^th 2009.)

• September 12^th 1992 – Dr Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel into space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

• Tim Berners-Lee begins to keep a list of all of the new websites as they hit the World Wide Web.

Let’s take a look at some things that happened in 1993 as well.

• April 30^th 1993 – The World Wide Web is Born at CERN.

• July 27^th 1993 – Windows NT 3.1 is the first version of Microsoft’s line of Windows NT OS that’s released to manufacturing.

• August 17^th 1993 – For the first time ever, the public is allowed into Buckingham Palace.

• November 11^th 1993 – Microsoft Releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to Manufacturing.

So, want to know what else happened in June of 1993? NCSA started a new “What’s New!” List of websites AND do we all remember Netscape? Well they began running the “What’s New!” List of sites.

Okay so now we are going to take a look into 1994.

• January 26^th 1994 – A Man Fires 2 Blank Shots at Prince Charles while in Sydney Australia.

• April 8^th 1994 – Lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain is found dead in his home in Seattle, Washington.

• December 15^th – The very first version of Netscape Navigator is released.

Do you know who Justin Hall is? Well he launched a website called “Justin’s Home Page”. The site had links to reviews of other sites and would later actually become Links from the Underground.

Let’s now skip ahead a few years and head into 1997. Let’s see a bit of what happened in ‘97.

• June 7^th 1997 – A user known as “_eci” publishes his code on Win 95 and Win NT which would later become WinNuke. Due to this distribution, Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.

• August 6^th 1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million share of financially troubled Apple.

• August 31^st 1997 - After a car accident that happened shorty after midnight in the Pont De L’Alma road tunnel in Paris, Diana, Princess of Wales was pronounced dead at 04:00.

• September 5^th 1997 – Mother Theresa passes away due to heart failure in Kolkata, India.

Have you ever heard of Frontier Software or Scripting News? In 1997 the company that Dave Winer heads, releases Radio Userland known as one of the very first blogging software tools. Also in 1997, SlashDot launches news for nerds and Jorn Barger introduced the term ‘weblog’ and blogging continued to develop.

Lets look into 1998.

• February 10^th 1998 – A college dropout becomes the first person convicted of a hate crime that was comitted in cyberspace.

• May 18^th 1998 – Microsoft has an antitrust case filed against them from The United States Department Of Justice and 20 U.S. States.

• June 25^th 1998 – Microsoft officially releases the first edition of Windows 98

What also happened was that the first list of blogsites we’re plublished on CamWorld by Cameron Barrett.

What about 1999:

• June 1^st 1999 – Napster Debuts

• June 21^st 1999 – Apple releases their first iBook (We gotta be honest, it was ugly!)

• July 22^nd 1999 – MSN’s first version is released by Microsoft.

• August 31^st – Apple releases the Power Macintosh G4

In the blogging world, it was announced by Peter Merholz that he would pronounce web blogs as ‘Wee-blog’. The first portal that was devoted to blogs began with about 50 listings by Brigitte Eaton. Hey do we remember Pitas? Some of us might, well it was launched as the first free ‘build your own blog’ web tool.

And last but not least in August of 1999 (We hope you all know this one) Pyra, releases blogger which still popularizes blogging with mainstream web users and went on to become the most popular (but certainly not the best) web based blogging tool to date.

So do you find this stuff interesting like I do?

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