1998: The First Blogging Platform

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1998: The First Blogging Platform (Open Diary) Launches
Now that there was a term for writing out your thoughts and sharing it with afghanistan phone number material world online, developers began to take notice and started creating platforms that were designed to allow everyday Internet users the ability to broadcast their own weblogs.

Open Diary Homepage in 1998 History of Blogging
A vital component of the history of blogging, Open Diary, debuted in 1998 as a blogging platform that not only provided space for users to blog, but also a space for members to comment on one another’s posts.

It was also right around this time that the word “weblog” became too cumbersome and the shortened and more modern slang term, “blog,” began to proliferate.

From this point forward, this vernacular would remain the same.

1999: Competition Emerges with Blogger and LiveJournal Launching
The turn of the century was almost here. Adults were worried about an upcoming potential disaster called Y2K (spoiler alert: nothing happened) and kids were catching them all with the latest craze, Pokemon.

In the blogging world, things were humming along smoothly as more blogging platforms started to emerge in the mass market.

Xanga Coming Soon Screenshot in the History of Blogging Optimized
In 1999, LiveJournal and Blogger both scrambled onto the scene, followed by Xanga (formerly a social networking site similar to the better-known MySpace, which wouldn’t emerge for several more years) in the year 2000.

2003: WordPress and TypePad Enter the Scene
Today, over one-third of websites (including my blog here) run on WordPress.