How Did Blogging Evolve?

"How did blogging evolve? It's a great question with a pretty interesting answer that requires us to go back to the origin of the "world wide web (www)."

Do you remember that the "www" is an offshoot of the internet? The creation of the "www" is what allowed individual web pages to have their own addresses and thus bring the power of the internet to the lay person. That's a quick and dirty definition.. but it gives you the main point. Do you remember when it first arrived? Sometimes I wish we were back at the beginning, BUT .. knowing all that we know today!

Alas ... as websites began to be added to the "www," lists were created "logging" each new website with links to its individual pages and associated comments (yes, like our search engines are today). This activity increased and these types of sites were referenced as "web logs" ... soon to be abbreviated to "blogs."

A major step forward occurred in January 1994 when a man by the name of Justin Hall launched a site named Justin’s Home Page. It would later become known as "Links from the Underground." The site stuck to the standard at the time and included links to other sites along with reviews of the sites. Two years into this web log Justin expanded this activity to include an online journal with dated daily entries. He described his journal as the following, “Some days, before I go to bed, I think about my day, and how it meshed with my life, and I write a little about what learned me.”

Journaling picked up and in May 1999, one of the first media articles was written on the emergence of weblogs and refers to the growing number of “Web Journalists”. The rest is history. Blogging emerged and just keeps growing!

Today this simple platform for dated entries with links and the availability for comments is the same platform used for all our blogs, groups, and social networks. Where do you think we will go next? Do you think we can ever go through something like this again? Looking back it is HUGE what has happened. Can you even remember life before the internet?

My observation that all that has evolved over the internet began from some very simple platforms ... platforms that are still behind all the "extras" that we've added ... platforms that make the whole thing work. Good reason to remember to not get caught up in the extras ... it's the basics that hold the keys to your success. What say you?

Keep your business growing ...
margie