| Every second person on this planet owns a blog but | | | | those who were interested in maintaining a personal |
| how many of us know how the entire concept of | | | | diary community. One of the most popular and most |
| blogging started? It is said that blogging initially | | | | widely used blogging website - was also launched in |
| started around 1994, some people started maintaining | | | | the year 1999. was launched by Evan Williams and |
| online records of their lives, and most of them were | | | | Meg Hourihan but was purchased by Google in the |
| journalist or diarist. Although blogging started at a | | | | year 2003. |
| very slow rate it soon became quite popular and as | | | | The modern age blogging system is quite advanced |
| the years passed on we got to see more and more | | | | and much more evolved in comparison to traditional |
| technical advancement in blog publishing. | | | | blogging system where most of the components |
| In the year 1998 Open Diary was launched by Bruce | | | | were updated manually. Modern age blogging system |
| Ableson, here the writers could post their views and | | | | offers highly technical, secure and sophisticated way |
| the visitors could comment on their post, within a | | | | of online publishing your views. Blogs can be run with |
| short span there were countless open diaries and it is | | | | the help of blog software or with the help of blog or |
| said that this was the first time that a blog | | | | web hosting services. A blog or a web log can be |
| community was formed where readers could actually | | | | defined as an online journal about anything. Those |
| add comments and express their views. In March | | | | who cannot afford to own a website can sign up for |
| 1999, LiveJournal and was launched. Brad Fitzpatrick | | | | free blogging accounts. Blogging nowadays does not |
| was the man behind Livejournal, was started by | | | | involve any technical job, as a user you only need to |
| Andrew Smales for maintaining news page on a | | | | write what you want to, give is a title and publish it. |
| website. In the same year Diaryland was launched for | | | | |