Of course we cannot really pin down the origin of blogging with precision. Keeping a set of frequently updated online posts with dated entries does not require any special software for those who know how to use HTML and FTP. Websites with frequently updated annotated links have been on the Internet for years. Several of our informants had started online journals before there were "blogs." For example, one had what he called a "Web journal" on his website in 1995 :
I had my little…Web journal section, which…ended up being, you know, blogging now but…then it was just the lazy man's digital alternative. Once blogging software became available to the public, people were able to take advantage of the new technology rather than having only hand-coding available to maintain weblogs.
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