What are blogs, and how did they become so popular?
We knew that “blog” was short for “weblog,” so we searched on “history of weblogs” to answer your question. A weblog is usually defined as a personal or noncommercial web site that uses a dated log format (usually with the most recent addition at the top of the page) and contains links to other web sites along with commentary about those sites. A weblog is updated frequently and sometimes groups links by specific subjects, such as politics, news, pop culture, or computer issues. Some people are of the opinion that Mosaic’s What’s New page in 1993 was the first weblog. It was essentially a list of links that a few people thought were worth passing along to others. However,
