History of blogging

While the term "blog" was not coined until the late 1990s, the history of blogging[1] starts with several digital precursors to it. 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][3] 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^[specify] have likened blogging to the Mass-Observation project of the mid-20th century.^{[citation needed]}