Timeline of Blog History

• Dawn of Internet Time: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.

• June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived What's New list of sites.

• June 1993: Netscape begins running it's What's New! list of sites.

• Jan 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.

• April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release Frontier, Manila and Radio Userland, all website and blog content software.

• Sept 1997 Slashdot launches their news for nerds.

• Dec 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term web log.

• November 1998: Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on Camworld.

• Early 1999: Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronouce web blogs as "wee-blog". This was then shortened to blog.

• Early 1999: Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.

• July 1999: Metafilter's earliest archives.

• July 1999: Pitas launches the first free build your own blog web tool.

• August 1999: Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.

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