Many of personal web pages were, at the early years
of internet were pages that provided personal information
of the owner. Mostly his academic curriculum, his
family, proffesional achivements and interest. These
were called "vanity pages".
But
soon, web designers not only were showing off their
success, at the same time they were also providers
of information. And of course a good experience
surfing the net, was valuable. The onwer of a web
page, often offered information about other pages
(links) and summaries of catalogued webs or clasiffied
list under de title "Favourites Links".
This was called BLOG,a
record of interesting sites he has seen. [see
definition of Blog], [see
types of blogs]
At
the same time early webs begun to express his personal
information, his interests and opinions.
a)
As the owner of a personal page developed his
information, these pages started to increase in
size and content. General content was normal but
personal information increased. And of course
literary creativity appeared. The only possible
feed-back from readers was via e-mail only and
the updating of the webpage was tedious and slow,
using "ftp" to re-donwload again and
again changes to the page.
b)
Later using "cgi" technology allowed
readers to express some ideas through what was
called "visitor's Book", but still the
e-mail was the only way to participate.
c)
These personal pages evolved from "personal
vanity pages" to "specific
interest subjects" and thus it specialised
on topics.
d)
Some companies created free spaces for individuals
and new ways to update the information on the
web page. Simultaneously, technologies like ASP/PHP
were developed to manage dynamic web content and
enabling participation from other users (to change
web content)
The
appearance of web publishing systems that made
easier to manage a web site. These publishing
software alowed:
-
Search engine facilities
- Possibility of reading posts from readers/customers
- Community discussion (or also called "Forum")
e)
Forums and bulletin boards appeared, specially
those based on "php"and linux. Content
pages developed with collaborative philosophy
(wiki) by associations, voluntary organizations,
internet clubs, citizens' asssociation, consumers,
etc. But specially those willing to collaborate
on a voluntary basis with free software, open
source, gnu and linux.
f)
These big web pages with dymanic content, preformated
web styles and with lots of design facilities
for users started offering free space for discussion
and participation.
g)
The individual blogger continued publishing their
single web page, but absorving these technologies,
in many cases the indivividual blogger preferred
to move his page to a free-service server that
offered blog facilities.
h)
Groups of bloggers joined Discussion
Forums, Notice Boards,
Bulletin Boards,
and finally appeared hundred of bloggin facilities.
Specialization arrived to bloggin.
So
the blogger frequently update his personal opinions
or experiencies in a chronological way. Some posted
scandalous information and rumors that the mainstream
press was to timid to publish, as it was the case
of manyjournalist using anonymous accounts.
[seee
what bloggers do nowadays]
