Origins Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, Byte Information Exchange (BIX) and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists,[10] and bulletin board systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software created running conversations with “threads”. Threads are…
The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users who did not have much experience with HTML or computer programming.…
A blog (a truncation of “weblog“) is a website whose basic unit is a “post” or “entry”, with posts typically presented in reverse chronological order. Blogging may be carried out by individuals, commercial enterprises, or organizations, and blog content varies…