I found this neat article about blogs on C|Net today. I added my own personal blogs to the timeline just for fun.
I’ve never started a meme before, but I would like to try one. Copy/paste the list below and add your own blogging experience to the timeline.
Read the full article: Blogs: The evolution
Sometime in 1971
Les Earnest, currently a senior research scientist emeritus at Stanford University, creates the finger protocol.
December 1977
The finger protocol becomes an official standard.
January 1994
Swarthmore student Justin Hall begins compiling lists of links at his site, links.net, and continues adding to the site for 11 years.
January 1995
Early online diarist Carolyn Burke publishes her first entry for Carolyn’s Diary.
April 1997
Dave Winer launches Scripting News, which he calls the longest-running Web log currently on the Internet.
September 1997
Slashdot begins publishing “News for Nerds.”
December 1997
Jorn Barger RobotWisdom.com site apparently becomes the first to call itself a Web log.
Sometime in 1999
Brad Fitzpatrick launches Livejournal, which he calls his “accidental success.”
Sometime in 1999
Peter Merholz of peterme.com declares he has decided “to pronounce the word ‘weblog’ as ‘wee-blog’” or “blog” for short.
August 1999
Three friends who founded a San Francisco start-up called Pyra Labs create a tool called Blogger “more or less on a whim.”
January 2001
First crop of blogs nominated for the “Bloggies” award.
October 2001
First version of Movable Type content management software becomes available.
February 2003
Google acquires Pyra and its Blogger software.
May 2003
First official version of WordPress open-source blogging software released for download.
October 2003
Six Apart releases first version of its Typepad blogging service.
December 2003
BikeBlog.us makes its appearance on the internets.
January 2004
Boston-based Steve Garfield launches his video blog, considered one of the first such “vlogs.”
October 2005
VeriSign buys Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com. Around the same time, AOL snaps up blog publisher Weblogs Inc.
November 2005
Doubting Thomas Blog.net is launched with no fanfare at all.
December 2005
Camera phone blog This Is What I See.net makes its debut.
February 2006
Veteran blogger Jason Kottke abandons his yearlong attempt to live off of micropayments through his blog.
September 2006
The beginning of the Bike Taxi Blog.
January 2007
Members of the Media Bloggers Association number among the first bloggers to receive press credentials from a federal court.
February 2007
Freelance video blogger Josh Wolf becomes the longest-serving journalist behind bars in U.S. history on contempt charges.
Hey, if you do follow this meme, let me know and I’ll link to your blog in the timeline above.
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