Blog early history in timeline form. Take a look at some of the first blogs and blog tools.

Like with the start of many things, early bloggers did not have a name for
what they were doing. While it took some time for the genre and the name to develop,
blogging has been around since the begining of the internet. Below is a
history of early blogs in timeline form.
• Dawn of Internet Time:
  
  Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they
  come online.
• June 1993:
  

  NCSA’s oldest archived What’s New list of sites.

• June 1993:
  Netscape
  begins running it’s What’s New! list of sites.
• Jan 1994:
  Justin Hall
  launches Justin’s Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
• April 1997: Dave Winer launches
  

  Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release Frontier,
  Manila and Radio Userland, all website and blog content software.

• Sept 1997
  Slashdot
  launches their news for nerds.
• Dec 1997:
  Jorn Barger
  coins the term web log.
• November 1998:
  Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on
  Camworld.
• Early 1999:
  Peter Merholz
  coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronouce
  web blogs as “wee-blog”. This was then shortened to blog.
• Early 1999:

  Brigitte Eaton
  starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.

• July 1999:
  
  Metafilter’s earliest archives.
• July 1999:
  Pitas
  launches the first free build your own blog web tool.
• August 1999:
  Pyra

  releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date,
  and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.

If you want to dig further into the history of blogging, we found most of our information from these sites.
• Rebecca Blood
• Eatonweb Portal
• Userland Weblogs

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