13 oct 2009


A blog is a blog is a regularly updated website that collects chronological texts or articles from one or more authors, the most recent appearing first, where the author always retains the freedom to stop creating relevant published. The blog name is based on logbooks. Travel journals that were used on ships to recount the development of travel and were kept in the log. Although the name has become popular in recent years following its use in different areas, or log workbook has been used ever since.

This blog or weblog English word comes from the words web and log ( 'log' in English = daily). The term blog, referring to the old logbooks of ships, is used when the author writes about his own life like a diary, but published on the Web (online).



History

Before blogs were made popular, digital communities exist as Usenet, mailing lists and BBS. In the 90 programs for creating Internet forums, such as WebEx, talks with threads enabled. The wires are messages that are related to a forum topic.
1994-2000

The blog is a modern evolution of online journals where people write about their personal lives, as if it were a diary but a network. Webring open pages included members of the community of online diaries. Justin Hall, who wrote in 1994 his personal blog, while a student at Swarthmore University, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers, [1].

There were other forms of online diaries. One example was the daily game programmer John Carmack, published via the finger protocol. Web sites such as corporate sites and personal web pages, and yet they often have sections about news or developments, often on the front page and sorted by date. An early precursor to a blog was the personal website of Kibo updated by Usenet.

Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much more people, and not necessarily with expertise. Lately, this has meant that today there are various types of forms of blogging. For example, using any browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging. Blogs can be hosted by blog hosting services dedicated or can be run using blog software like Blogger or LiveJournal, or by web hosting services such as DreamHost.