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CNet tries to map out the early days of blogging in an article today.

Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?

They trace the idea of a blog back to .plan files on UNIX accounts. I had one of those, and it wasn’t anything like a blog, but maybe it was the idea of making something personal visible to others that counts. It probably doesn’t matter much who was the first blogger except that someone will get the credit in any histories which are written and it’s probably worth the effort to figure out who did what and when. CNet’s timeline is a useful addition to the history of blogging. I also like the big picture map, but I’d like to be able to add other stories to that and not have it limited to CNet stories. Maybe it should be called the Big CNet picture?

Technorati Tags:
blogging, history of blogging

CNet tries to map out the early days of blogging in an article today.

Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?

They trace the idea of a blog back to .plan files on UNIX accounts. I had one of those, and it wasn’t anything like a blog, but maybe it was the idea of making something personal visible to others that counts. It probably doesn’t matter much who was the first blogger except that someone will get the credit in any histories which are written and it’s probably worth the effort to figure out who did what and when. CNet’s timeline is a useful addition to the history of blogging. I also like the big picture map, but I’d like to be able to add other stories to that and not have it limited to CNet stories. Maybe it should be called the Big CNet picture?

Technorati Tags:
blogging, history of blogging