While sitting over cups of tea, and complaining about the gloomy grey weather, Lydia and I had this conversation.
Me: "I need to blog today."
Lydia: "Where did the word 'blog' come from anyway?"
Me: "I don't know! It must have something to do with keeping a log, since it has the word in it."
(Silent puzzling followed by looking it up on the oh-so-useful internet.)
So here it is, straight from Wikipedia. Now I know Wikipedia gets poo-pooed by the academic world, but I have always found it to be an excellent source of information.
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[9] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[10][11][12] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog", meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[13]
Web log, weblog, we blog, blog, makes perfect sense! There is an inner need in the human race to record and remember. Museums all over the world are full of clay tablets and crumbling bits of parchment, the last remaining remnants of people now dead and buried. One of my favorite rides in EPCOT Disneyworld is Spaceship Earth, the giant "golf ball" shaped thing. It takes you through the history of communication. You begin with simple cave paintings, travel through the papyrus fields of Egypt, join medieval monks as they painstakingly copy fancy manuscripts, and journey through the age of the machines where the printing press and telegraph come to life. You end in the here and now, the "future." The wireless era. The blog era.
Me: "I need to blog today."
Lydia: "Where did the word 'blog' come from anyway?"
Me: "I don't know! It must have something to do with keeping a log, since it has the word in it."
(Silent puzzling followed by looking it up on the oh-so-useful internet.)
So here it is, straight from Wikipedia. Now I know Wikipedia gets poo-pooed by the academic world, but I have always found it to be an excellent source of information.
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[9] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[10][11][12] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog", meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[13]
Web log, weblog, we blog, blog, makes perfect sense! There is an inner need in the human race to record and remember. Museums all over the world are full of clay tablets and crumbling bits of parchment, the last remaining remnants of people now dead and buried. One of my favorite rides in EPCOT Disneyworld is Spaceship Earth, the giant "golf ball" shaped thing. It takes you through the history of communication. You begin with simple cave paintings, travel through the papyrus fields of Egypt, join medieval monks as they painstakingly copy fancy manuscripts, and journey through the age of the machines where the printing press and telegraph come to life. You end in the here and now, the "future." The wireless era. The blog era.
I learned something new today. Thanks
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