There’s a couple of days left on this poll. Note that I’m referring to blogs, i.e. linky commentary ordered by date. I think some people who have chosen 90s have been referencing GeoCities, Homestead, etc. While those services could’ve been used to run journals / weblogs, it wasn’t normally the case. By all means choose 90s if you were writing a blog on GeoCities, but just wanted to clarify that. https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115113003418086356

@ricmac "If you think you started blogging before Richard, think again."

@ricmac seriously, though, I think the webzines, web journals and me-zines of the late 1990s became blogs. One good heuristic might be whether or not you had an RSS 0.9 feed. If not, maybe it wasn't a time-sequenced Web site.

@evan Good point, but as I noted in my post, even Blogger didn’t provide RSS feeds until sometime in 2000, so you could’ve had a Blogger blog but no RSS feed. Also RSS 0.90 and 0.91 were quite limited.

@ricmac yeah. Also, it was drenched in RDF, so it was really hard to understand and use.