I Want Some Answers: Who's to Blame for this Blog?

When put into perspective, blogging is a mere infant child compared to the father figures of newspapers and broadcast reporting it so aspires to be. But like any child, you need parents. People who combine to create a new entity, a new opportunity, a fresh start. That and people just love getting jiggy with it.

So who put their creative 'bits' to good use in order to conceive the rapidly growing baby that is Blogging?

It's a pretty widely debated area. One thing's for sure - no-one is really certain of who made the first bona fide blog post, but there are a series of important landmarks and people who have led to the universe of blogging that we are so used to now.

A quick Google search for "first blogger" brings up a plethora of arguments and suggested names. A brief scan of the results lists names such as 'Richard Steele' and 'Dougie Howser' (the blogosphere's equal to Snoop Dogg perhaps?).

A great article by Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache on the subject guides us through an extremely brief history of how the act of blogging came to be, however even they are having a stab in the dark, beginning their article thusly:

"Someone, somewhere created the very first Web log. It's just not quite clear who."

There's a few egocentric members of the internet universe who are keen to lay claim to the invention of the blog, one of these being John Barger who started his website as a means to post up articles he had found, stating that the day to day logging of his intellectual pursuits and findings heralded the creation of a new term - the WebLog.

So perhaps that was the foundations that the blogosphere was built upon? It's a fairly reasonable claim to the title of world's first blogger, but it certainly isn't the only one, and it's all but impossible to really ascertain just who really began this whole blogging shishkebang.

Some even argue that someone called Jesus was the inventor of blogging, so you can see how this whole argument could go on. One thing's for sure, it might not be the first blog, but it's certainly the best, so stop worrying about pedantic questions such as these and read this.