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First there was the webpage. It was ugly, but back then nobody knew that. You were just happy if the page loaded before the line went down, and while you waited for it, you could watch those interlaced images slowly mosaic into something recognizable.
Then we got the wiki. What a relief to no longer have to write HTML but instead simply write the content right in the browser. Add automagic links, and it was really easy to create pages. But with a lot of pages, they tend to be stale because there’s just too much content for the average person to keep up to date.
Weblogs solve this by actually making stale content intentional. It’s a diary, and you don’t go back revising your diary every half year. You add to it. In the case of the blog, you add to the beginning rather than to the end.
Everybody and his uncle are writing blogs out there these days. It’s only natural that we should all join the fray so that the virtual archaelogists will have something to ponder, anno 2236.
Blogging seems to be a good evolution since the first webpage crawled up on the beach of the IntarWebs. A blog is a useful tool when you have just enough to say to fill a postcard, but don’t want to create a whole webpage or website about it. Some people do anyway, though. They would also tend to use animated GIFs and yellow-on-green designs. Oh, and background MIDI music.
Miss the good ol’ days? Webwise, I don’t.