Al Gore might think that he invented the Internet, but was he also responsible for creating blogging? (The answer, of course, is no.)
It’s a question I have never considered: Who did invent blogging?
A new book, “Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, And Why It Matters,” by Scott Rosenberg, a co-founder of Salon.com, explores that question. And the answer may surprise you.
Since the medium evolved, there is no inventor, no first blog, and no one who can pound their chest and take credit for the communication medium.
Fifteen years of collaborative work spawned the blogging revolution. This book gives you an inside look. Is blogging success contingent on understanding its roots? Well, if the past is destined to repeat, that would be ‘affirmative’ captain!
You can grab the hardcover at Amazon or hold out until June 1, 2010 for the paperback.
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I think its invented with online dairy.
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Well everyone says that blogging began when the world wide web began and that was 1995.
I been blogging however since June of 1982. There may have been others blogging at the same time or even before me but I know for a fact that I was blogging on my bulletin board system (BBS) called Howard’s Notebook.
Howard’s Notebook is still going strong. I have been blogging 24/7 since 1982.
People had to log in at 300 baud over a land line at first.
I have a YouTube video were I talk about it: http://youtu.be/_EYoUCNHKfA
You can read about it at my blog and see the video: http://goo.gl/PHmzd
In March of 1984 my blog was written about in “Link-Up” magazine:
“…One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard’s fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks…”
Around that time people could also dail into my BBS and read information and click on a link and it would dial out on another modem and phone line I had and connect them with the other site.
I think I had all the true marks of a blog.
So now you know who invented blogging and is the father of the blog! Smile