1999: Blogs Burst Onto the Scene, but Rss Is Slow to Settle
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The article discusses the emergence of blogging and RSS in 1999, with the launch of Blogger making it easier for non-techies to publish blogs.
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A look back at the dawn of blogging and RSS in 1999. At the start of that year, a small community of "loggers" were designing and writing weblogs, but it wasn't until the launch of Blogger in August '99 that it became easy for non-techies to publish a blog. Alongside this, Netscape and Dave Winer had early versions of RSS — Netscape's was the official RSS format at this time, but it was very limited.
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