2006-08-24 06:40:28 · 10 answers · asked by Peter McKoy 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
I think it was Ivan Blog... well you know the rest! All these people think they know what they are talking about... trust me it was IVAN!
2006-08-24 06:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by Queen of Kings 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.[2][3][4] This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").
2006-08-27 19:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by BlogSpecialist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe someone was on the computer and had smoked a little and made up the name--they spread the word and now this is what we call it--Blog-blog blog.
2006-08-24 13:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by nccox1973 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog in April or May of 1999. [1] "Blog" was accepted as a noun (weblog shortened) and as a verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog"). [2]
Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal "blogging" in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers[3]. After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity: the site Xanga, launched in 1996, had only 100 diaries by 1997, and over 50 000 000 as of December 2005. Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools:
* Open Diary launched in October 1998, soon growing to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries.
* Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal in March 1999.
* Andrew Smales's projects: Pitas.com created in July 1999 (as an easier alternative to maintaining a 'news page' on a website), and Diaryland, created in September 1999 (focusing more on a personal diary community)[1]
* Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched Blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February 2003)
* Paul Kedrosky's GrokSoup
2006-08-28 08:45:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A blog is a short form of wblog and its an online diary where people share their thoughts and daily activities.
2006-08-25 07:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by world news 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was told it was from web log - which is too long for online folks
So it was shortened to blog
2006-08-24 13:46:02 · answer #6 · answered by tigglys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know who coined the word "blog" but its etymology is from "WeB LOG"
2006-08-24 13:43:56 · answer #7 · answered by spindoccc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's short for web log.
2006-08-24 13:42:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
short for web log
2006-08-24 13:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know but it always makes me think of snot
2006-08-24 13:46:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋