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What was the first blog?
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Posted on: July 17, 2007 12:31 PM, by Coturnix
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An editor at the San Jose Mercury claims that when the Merc went on line with its contents in '93, he had the daily job [because the content organzation was in constant flux] of writing a page summarizing what was new or noteworthy and linking to it...a blog, if you will. 1993. And he kept it up for years. Its major failure to conform to type or classification is that I did not note anything about comments in the write up. ["good morning silicon valley" is a useful subscription]
Posted by: greensmile | July 17, 2007 5:12 PM
That's a difficult question, because blogs existed way before the NAME blog (or weblog) did. So it's going to be something that was on the web early on, updated regularly, and linking to things or posting news.
I know what the first webcam was, though: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html
Posted by: Eva | July 17, 2007 5:35 PM