Believe it or not, last night I found myself thinking of ideas for the next days blogs. Then I asked myself, what is a "blog"? Being really new to the "blogging" scene, or to the "really putting effort into writing on the internet" scene, I needed to know
Where did this cute little squishy word that has taken over the internet come from?
Is it just a nonsensical mess of letters put together by contemporary society in order to capture our sometimes fickle attention?? This may sound like it could be true, but the word "log" is in blog, and "log" is already a real word that means a record of performance, events, or day to day events.
Okay, so that makes sense right, but what about the "B" in blog?
Further research shows that the word "blog" is an abridgment for the term "weblog" which was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger. 2 years after Barger introduced the term "web log", Peter Merholz an avid web logger announced he was going to pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. Eventually he shortened "wee-blog" to the "blog" that we know and love today.
So, if anyone other than myself was tossing and turning in bed over that, hopefully you can sleep tonight.
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