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Blogging History

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

According to Wikipedia, the largest free encyclopedia, the term “weblog” was first used by John Barger in 1997. In May, 1999, Peter Merholz converted the word into a new term keeping the characters the same. He made it “we blog” instead of “weblog”. He especially pointed out the term “blog”. Shortly after that, this word was globally accepted both as a noun meaning a weblog and as a verb meaning “to post in someone’s blog”. (more…)

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