Blog?

Where the heck did the word blog come from?  I was wondering this myself, so I decided to find out...

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Blog is short for "web-log" which is an online journal or newsletter that is updated frequently and is posted on a website for people to read.
The word blog is actually just short for web-log, which can literally be defined as a place on the internet where you can keep "logs" or updates of your daily happenings.
A web log can literally be defined as a place on the internet where you can keep logs/tabs of daily happenings.

The term 'Blog' is the evolved term coined by Peter Merholz in 1999.
It's not an acronym,...it's a colloquialism. It comes from the conjoined terms web and log...as in weblog. Then it evolved into simply blog when Peter Merholz coined the term in 1999.

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So now you know.....(or did you already?)

Is this the most lame first blog??  Am I the only one that was wondering this?