The history of blogs
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A slideshow based on The early years - A timeline of blogging (February 20, 2006) and the history of blogs (October 14, 2006).
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- 4. January 1994 Swarthmore student Justin Hall first blog, Links.net .
- 5. December 1997 Jorn Barger coins term “ Weblog ” for “logging the Web.”
- 6. April 1999 Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.”
- 7. August 1999 Blogger rolls out first popular, free blog-creation service.
- 8. January 2000 Boing Boing is born.
- 9. July 2000 AndrewSullivan.com launches.
- 10. February 2002 Heather Armstrong fired for discussing job on blog, Dooce . “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.”
- 11. August 2002 Nick Denton launches Gizmodo , first in what will become a blog empire.
- 12. August 2002 Blogads launches, the first broker of blog advertising.
- 13. December 2002 Gawker launches, igniting the gossip-blog boom.
- 14. March 2003 “ Salam Pax ,” an anonymous Iraqi blogger, gains worldwide audience during the Iraq war.
- 15. June 2003 Google launches AdSense , ads match blog content.
- 16. September 2003 Jason Calacanis founds Weblogs , Inc . , which eventually grows into a portfolio of 85 blogs .
- 17. January 2004 Nick Denton launches Wonkette .
- 18. March 2004 Calacanis poaches Gizmodo writer Peter Rojas from Denton.
- 19. December 2004 Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “Word of the Year.”
- 20. January 2005 Study finds that 32 million Americans read blogs.
- 21. May 2005 The Huffington Post launches .
- 22. October 2005 Calacanis sells his blogs to AOL for $25 million.
- 23. December 2005 Estimated $100 million worth of blog ads sold 2005 .
- 25. August 2006