I have been asked by my ICT teacher to start a blog, in order to be able to understand the more fully privacy on the Internet and the ways in which we can broadcast ourselves over the net. In this introduction I will talk about what exactly a blog is and a little bit about the history of blogging.So what exactly is a blog? Well to put things in their simplest form a blog is actually a shortened version of the phrase Web Log. A web log is an online journal to which anyone can contribute depending on how open with the privacy settings the creator is. People upload their thoughts on matters and then will discus them in a journal like way with comments arranged in chronological order. A blog can be about anything at all, and can also be used as a way of describing yourself to people as things like facebook are used for.So where did it all start? Personal journals have actually been kept for thousands of years, right back to Julius Caeser and his mililtary blogs. It took twelve years after the internet was created for the first system of “discussion boards” to be formed. In 1979 USENET was formed, which gave people a way to form links with friends on the internet. Since then pioneers such as Brian Redman, Claudio Pinhanez, Jorn Barger and the legend Tim Berners-Lee to name a few, have all added useful programmes to the internet which have made blogging an easy and an extremely popular thing.
A good website for a brief but detailed history blogging can be found at this link, The History of Blogging.
Below is a very simple video on how to start a blogger acount and how to start posting your own thoughts and views
