What Exactly is a Blog? A Bit of Blogging History As the internet grew to become what it is today, many webmasters discovered that web surfers wanted to know which websites had recently been updated and which had new information on them. Web surfers were looking for new and exciting information and didn’t want to have to go check websites themselves to see if they had been updated recently. They wanted somewhere they could go and see just what was new.
Some smart programmers started posting logs on their own websites which told the web surfers which websites had recent updates or new information on them. These weblogs, as they were called at that time, were like an informal directory of “what’s new” online. These weblogs, and the technology which powered them, eventually grew and changed to become the blogs of today. A blog is simply a website which is written in a friendly news format which is frequently updated. Rather than be a listing of new or updated websites, blogs became to be new, always changing, websites in themselves. A blog takes the same role online as your local television daily news program or newspaper do in their respective media types. Blogs are somewhere you go when you want new and interesting information on any given topic.