History

CNET: “Blogs turn 10-who’s the father”

Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache are writers for CNET News.Com and they have written a story called “Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?” The subject of the story is “Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It’s just not quite clear who.”
They list a lot of names and some dates. You will not find the [...]

Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache are writers for CNET News.Com and they have written a story called “Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?” The subject of the story is “Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It’s just not quite clear who.”

They list a lot of names and some dates. You will not find the name “Jim Howard” listed and you will not find June of 1982.

“…Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?…”

If you check out the story they have a box with “Blogs: The evolution” and they have January 1994 Justin Hall begins compiling lists of links at his site. I started doing that in June of 1982! I only listed local sites so the list only had about 4 sites, for Kansas City, listed. I did that for years and years until a local “SysOp” organization took over the project. I even did linking and this is before there was a world wide web. (The www started in 1995 if I remember correct.) So around 1983 or 1984 people could dial into my bulletin board system at 300 baud or 1200 baud and connect with Howard’s Notebook and find a list of other sites and click on it and dial out via my other modem and phone line and connect with the other site.

In March of 1984 Ric Manning wrote in “Link-Up” magazine about my site. Part of what Ric says is; “…One of the menu choices is a chatty letter from Howard that discusses his latest tinkering with the system or his opinions on the general state of BBS communication. Another menu choice reviews excerpts from Howard’s fan mail, and a third contains information on computer groups, local BBS numbers and computer ham networks…”
Folks I say that was a blog and that was the birth of ShowMeBlog.

The CNET story list the next date on the evolution list as January 1995 with Carolyn Burke publishes her first entry for Carolyn’s Diary.
Well friends I am happy she started to blog but what took her 11 years? I had been doing a blog for 11 years at the point in time.

I could go on looking at the “evolution” list but what is the point?

If your looking for the someone who created the very first Web log well you found him here. If your wondering where it was created and started it all started in Belton, Missouri in June of 1982.

It began in June of 1982 and it is still going. For many years I called it Howard’s Notebook and it is still on line but I blog now under the name of “ShowMeBlog.

I am not looking to take credit away from any of the other people. They may have been out their doing their thing and that is great. I just feel that the history should be clear.

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Wikipedia History of the Blog

  I am a big Wikipedia fan.  I use data from it and link to it often in my blog:  Howard’s Notebook.  I looked at the Wikipedia entry on Blog to see what they said about the blog and the history of the blog.  I did not find my name.  Smile
 
“A blog (a contraction of the [...]

  I am a big Wikipedia fan.  I use data from it and link to it often in my blog:  Howard’s Notebook.  I looked at the Wikipedia entry on Blog to see what they said about the blog and the history of the blog.  I did not find my name.  Smile

“A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log“) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual , with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something…”

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Did I Invent Blogging?

Here is a 9 minute video that I made in August of 2007.  It is “Did Jim Howard Invent the Blog?”

Here is a 9 minute video that I made in August of 2007.  It is “Did Jim Howard Invent the Blog?”

The Good Old Days

I just set up this site using WordPress.  I will try and add some content to it.
One thing that I would like to do is give some history of the hobby of shortwave listening from my point of view.
I started listening to shortwave radio in about 1955.  I was one of the founders of the [...]

I just set up this site using WordPress.  I will try and add some content to it.
One thing that I would like to do is give some history of the hobby of shortwave listening from my point of view.
I started listening to shortwave radio in about 1955.  I was one of the founders of the American Shortwave Listeners Club.  I called for the formation of the Association of North American Radio Clubs (ANARC).
I just read for the first time the history of The North American Shortwave Association.  It was written by Don Jensen in 2001 for the NASWA’s 40th anniversary.  I can add some information to that history.  I will post the information here when I get time.

This post is just a seed to get me started on the subject.  I will come back to this later.