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Want to add a mention of first warblog

For the sake of history, I'd like to add a mention of the first known warblog that I have found, which I made public on the Internet at the same time as the 6 June 1996 website launch of www.birzeit.edu [1]. It had been written and coded since November 1995, but was not available online internationally until 6 June 1996. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine didn't pick up the blog for another four months, on the same day it picked up the main university website, 22 October 1996.

At that time it was located in a privately maintained subdirectory off Birzeit University's main website at birzeit.edu/diary/. LOL, can you imagine a university allowing that these days?

Here's a link to the blog homepage "A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", from the Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022110437/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/

Here's a link to the *dated* diary entries from the Internet archive at the time of the first Internet Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022075829/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/index2.html

Here's a link to the *dated* diary entries as of 1999 (pretty much the end of the warblog) from the Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991128043733/http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/index2.html

[1] Referenced on the university homepage at: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022073730/http://www.birzeit.edu/index.html

Anyway....

Flyingmonkeyairlines (talk) 17:53, 13 July 2019 (CST)

(Don't know if you already know this, but) for this to be added to the article there has to actually be a source (news article, book, tracking organization, etc.) saying it's the first (or a very early) warblog, per the original research policy.

Term vs. activity

This article mainly deals with the actual activity, namely in the History section where people were doing it long before it was called a blog or blogging, but the word weblog already existed for something else. For all I know, the term weblog originated as another name for the What's new aka Recent changes section of websites, in order to "log" aka document those recent changes on the website. It was only later, by around the mid to late-90s, that the meaning of the term shifted to what we now call a blog or blogging. --2003:DA:CF0A:F291:F931:76DF:D0F:78B (talk) 12:48, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's pure unsourced speculation and has no place here. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:07, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just saying, there's a difference between experience and speculation, even if one has no material proof at hand. The past may be a foreign land, yet not everything that happened before your birth is "pure speculation". --2003:DA:CF0A:F291:F931:76DF:D0F:78B (talk) 04:32, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of the events in their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earlier bloggers,[16] as is Jerry Pournelle.[17]

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The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of the events in their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earlier bloggers,[16] as is Jerry Pournelle,[17] and Michael Harling, who began blogging in 1997 and currently claims Postcards From Across the Pond to be "The (Second) Longest Running, Continuously Active, Personal Blog on the Internet"

2025MHarling (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, this isn't a place to promote your blog. - MrOllie (talk) 12:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Shahzaib Malic (talk) 20:36, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want to share my some knowledge about blogging.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Tenshi! (Talk page) 20:44, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]