The Prehistory of the Weblog
Mark points to an interesting CNet article which investigates the question “who wrote the first blog?”:
Barger, a programmer, futurist and James Joyce scholar, is not afraid to say, indeed, he’s the guy who invented the term “Web log.” In December 1997, he created RobotWisdom.com to feature entirely bloggy collections of links to articles about politics, culture, books and technology that he found interesting.
I’ve been reading RobotWisdom on and off for years, but I didn’t realize it was quite so venerable. The article goes on to describe .plan files, which I’d never heard of.
