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Online diaries started in 1995 and were the precursor to the modern blog (online diaries are sometimes referred to as personal blogs). They were also known as online journals. The running updates of online diarists combined with links inspired the term 'web logs' which was eventually contracted into the word blog.
In online diaries people write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, often allowing others to contribute through comments or community posting. The first webpage in an online-diary format may be Claudio Pinhanez's "Open Diary", started on November 14th 1994 at the MIT Media Laboratory website and remain receiving entries until 1996 (a copy of his "open diary" is still in existence). Another important date is April 19th, 1995 , when The Semi-Existence of Bryon was announced in the USENET newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.announce. Carolyn Burke is often credited as a pioneer; she began January 3, 1995 and her innovative "Carolyn's Diary" was well known.
Online diaries soon caught the attention of the media with publication of the book 24 Hours in Cyberspace which captured personal profiles of the people involved in early webpages (Carolyn Burke was on the cover).
Interactive online diaries, or personal blogs, are integrated into the daily lives of many teenagers and college students, with communications between friends playing out over their blogs. Even fights may be posted in the diaries, with not-so-veiled insults of each other easily readable by all their friends, enemies, and complete strangers.
Personal opinions on experiences and hobbies are very common in the blog world. Blogs have given the opportunity for people to express their views to a mass audience.
* The Online Diary History Project hosts recollections from some pioneers who began writing between 1995-1997; they trace the development and popularization of the medium up to 2000.
Modern Online Diary Web Applications
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