Blogging

When you consider what is behind a writers motives, it is usual to consider the history and the background behind what has influenced them into writing I suppose. Thats what they told me in lectures anyway.

Blogging: A History

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists[2] and bulletin board systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with "threads". Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard". Some have likened blogging to the Mass-Observation project of the mid-20th century.

Such inspiring stuff.