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27 years ago to the date Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: : – ) Fahlman says he came up with the idea after reading “lengthy diatribes” from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post. With [...]

Meet the guy who started it all… Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet surfing. In the decade since then, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times. There are more than 100 million active blogs, according to Technorati [...]