Blogging is already an old art, even this early in
the 21st century. Starting in
the early 1980’s, Usenet featured moderated newsgroups that allowed people to
post going-ons. Online diaries evolved
into the modern blog, and in 1994, Justin Hall became one of the earliest known
bloggers. Early bloggers referred to
themselves as escribtionists, and early blogs were hosted on blogging hosting
services, or created with blogging software.
Jorn Barger was the first to call the online diary a weblog but it was
Peter Merholtz who broke the word up into we blog, and Evan Williams coined the
term “blog.”
Mark Zuckerberg created facebook in 2003 while
attending Harvard. His first site,
facesmash, compared two pictures of students and let fellow students vote on
who was the hotter of the two. It was
only up for a few days before Harvard shut it down. The actual site, facebook, began under
controversy, Zuckerberg being accused of stealing the idea; it was originally
set up just for Harvard students. A year
later, it expanded to several other colleges.
It started a high school version in 2005, and in late 2006, facebook was
opened to all users, 13 and older with a valid e-mail. In 2010, Columbia Pictures presented the story
of the beginning of facebook in the movie, The Social Network.
Three former PayPal workers created YouTube in
2005. The intent was to create a site
where users could upload videos. Google
bought YouTube in 2006. The first video
uploaded was by Jawed Karim called, Me at the Zoo. It is still available for viewing. Twitter was created in 2006 as a
microblogging site. Jack Dorsey said of
the name that as a short burst of inconsequential information, twitter was the
perfect name.
All information was taken from Wikipedia.com
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