The word “blog” is an
abbreviation of the term “weblog”. Back in the early 1990s, when the internet
as we know it today was still in its infancy, weblogs were a form of online
diary keeping. The earliest bloggers would share details of their everyday
lives on first-generation blog sites such as Open Pages and Open Diary.
By the end of that decade, blog technology improved to
the point where readers could leave comments on other people’s blogs, and even
include links to other web pages. Very quickly, improvement in search engine
technology made it simple for anybody to find blogs written about whatever
specific topics were of interest to them.
By the mid-2000s, open
source blog hosting sites such as Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress began to offer
free software that any user could use to create and publish
professional-looking blogs quickly and easily.
These sites, which remain popular today, also
hosted and distributed the blogs for free so that bloggers could write as many
blogs as they wanted and there was sure to be a steady supply of regular, loyal
readers.
Today, there are literally
millions of blogs being written every day and on every subject imaginable.
Whether you are interested in anthropology, cooking, sewing, movies, sex or sports,
with just the click of a few buttons you can be connected with thousands of
freshly-written blogs on the topics you like best. Plus, you can interact with
the writers, meet other people who
share
your interest, and engage in a lively interchange with an entire community
devoted to whatever subject you are into.
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