C/Net News.Com
Has a story by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache that was first published on 03/10/2007 called:
Blogs turn 10--who's the father?
"It may not be one of the Internet's grandest accomplishments, but with the number of active bloggers hovering somewhere around 100 million, according to one
estimate
, there are some serious bragging rights to be claimed by the first person who provably laid fingers to keyboard in the traditional bloggy way.
Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the "founding father of personal blogging"?..."
Someone may want to contact them and give them the correct information. Blogs are not 10 years old they are over 25 years old. I invented blogging back in June of 1982.
Jim Howard is the inventor of blogging.
The first blog is still going and is called Howard's Notebook and can be found at www.showmeblog.com
In March of 1984 Ric Manning wrote in "Link-Up" magazine about my site. Part of what Ric said is; "...One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard's fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks..."
Folks I say that was a blog and that was the birth of Howard's Notebook. I say I am the father of all blogs and the inventor of the blog!
I started doing a "blog" in June of 1982! I even did linking and this is before there was a world wide web. (The www started in 1995 if I remember correct.) So around 1983 or 1984 people could dial into my bulletin board system at 300 baud or 1200 baud and connect with Howard's Notebook and find a list of other sites and click on it and dial out via my other modem and phone line and connect with the other site.
In March of 1984 Ric Manning wrote in "Link-Up" magazine about my site. Part of what Ric says is; "...One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard's fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks..."
Folks I say that was a blog and that was the birth of Howard's Notebook. I say I am the father of all blogs and the inventor of the blog!
If your looking for the someone who created the very first Web log well you found him here. If your wondering where it was created and started it all started in Belton, Missouri in June of 1982.
It began in June of 1982 and it is still going.
I am not looking to take credit away from any of the other people. They may have been out their doing their thing and that is great. I just feel that the history should be clear.
