After thinking about how to start writing, or rather the topic of what to write about, I thought to myself what better way of starting than writing a blog post about blogging. As I see it, blogs have revolutionised the way people communicate and reflect on other people's thoughts across the internet. Web 2.0 has brought us a number of new communication tools for us to use. In the last 5 to 10 years, blogs have skyrocketed across the internet and nowadays a vast amount of people present online are connected to blogs in one way or another. Some write blogs and some read the, but almost everyone visits blog on a daily basis.
Blogging started in the late 90's. The term "blog" was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger and is short for weblog. According to him, the act of blogging is a process of logging the web. In the beginning, blogging wasn't as simple as today (I have created this blog in less that 2minutes and am already writing my first post) as post had to be published manually. The popularity of blogs started to rise and with it blogging platforms arose. On of the first was LiveJournal. As stated on their site: "LiveJournal.com, a blogging platform and online community built around personal journals, was started by Brad Fitzpatrick in April of 1999. It was begun simply as a fun project to entertain himself and some of his friends. As friends told friends, more people joined and it became a huge success. The platform soon grew to be bigger than a single person could easily handle."
In the same year, 1999, another platform was launched what would later become known as Blogger, and was started by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan at Pyra Labs. Blogger is one of the bigger reasons blogging has become mainstream (Note: Blogger was the first platform which sprung to my mind when I was faced with the task of easily creating a blog. It may not be the most flexible but it sure is the fastest and easiest way for setting up a blog).
It is said that there were 23 blogs on the internet in 1999. That number has been growing exponentially since that and there were over 50 million blogs present on the web by 2007. According to RoyalPingdom there were more than 100 million blogs present only on two platforms (WordPress and Tumblr). Do we dare to predict the number for 2015?
As we can see by the numbers, blogs are becoming an everyday thing for a internet user. Blogs are full of useful resources and bloggers are intertwined with eachother more and more. Not only do blogs (or rather blogging platforms) allow an internet user to set up a personal homepage easier than ever (remember Geocities?), they allow them to connect with other bloggers and thus communicate in a new, exciting way. The two-way communication which is one of the foundations of Web2.0 has made blogging possible as we now it today.
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