Nowadays, people all over the globe talk about blogs, describe what they read in a blog, get excited over blogs and cry over blogs. But where did the term "blog" really come from, and when?
In the mid 90's, 1997 to be exact, John Barger used the term "weblog" to describe an online log. Jokingly, Peter Merholz used the phrase "we blog" on the side of his blog, Peterme.com and soon after shortened to "blog". By 2000, the phrase blog described an online log an individual updated on a regular basis. Blogs fought their way into common conversation by growing at a extremely fast rate, peaking at 156 million public blogs. Those of us who use this word on a everyday basis never stop and think about how the word has only been around for 14 or so years. Much like YouTube and Facebook, Blogs have become a world-wide phenomenon; a platform where everyone from businessmen to cooks, from sports stars to medical geniuses, and from everyday people like us to senators and congressmen.
I hope everyone of us, upon hearing the word "blog" would stop and think about when and how this phrase originated.
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