History+Of+Blogs

=**Blogging Through The Years...**=

=__**Blog**__: a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer (Merriam-Webster).=

Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.” Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.” Blogger rolls out the first popular, free blog-creation service AndrewSullivan.com launches. “Salam Pax,” an anonymous Iraqi blogger, gains worldwide audience during the Iraq war. Google launches AdSense, matching ads to blog content. The first avalanche of ads on political blogs. Jason Calacanis founds Weblogs, Inc., which eventually grows into a portfolio of 85 blogs. Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “Word of the Year.” Study finds that 32 million Americans read blogs. The Huffington Post launches. An estimated $100 million worth of blog ads are sold this year.
 * January 1994**
 * December 1997**
 * April 1999**
 * August 1999**
 * July 2000**
 * March 2003**
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 * December 2004**
 * January 2005**
 * May 2005**
 * December 2005**

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