🔗 Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type
2001 was when blogging grew up. What started as scattered personal diaries and link dumps suddenly became something bigger. People started writing in real-time about world events, with tools like RSS and Movable Type giving blogs the platform and momentum to get their message out there easily.
This is a great post and a walk down memory lane from around the time I became interested in reading blogs. Although my own blogging came much later, in around 2011, I was a consumer long before then.
More broadly, Richard’s Cyber Cultural site is a fantastic resource for all kinds on web nostalgia. It’s one of my favourites.
Blogging’s identity shifted in 2001 from quirky personal logs to serious commentary and war-blogging, as new platforms and RSS made real-time publishing possible.
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