1999: Competition Emerges with Blogger
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 4:38 am
1999: Competition Emerges with Blogger and LiveJournal Launching
The turn of the century was almost here. Adults were worried about an upcoming potential disaster called Y2K (spoiler alert: nothing happened) and kids were catching them all with the latest craze, Pokemon.
In the blogging world, things were humming along smoothly as more blogging platforms started to emerge in the mass market.
Xanga Coming Soon Screenshot in the History of Blogging Optimized
In 1999, LiveJournal and Blogger both scrambled onto the scene, followed by afghanistan phone number resource (formerly a social networking site similar to the better-known MySpace, which wouldn’t emerge for several more years) in the year 2000.
2003: WordPress and TypePad Enter the Scene
Today, over one-third of websites (including my blog here) run on WordPress.
And looking at how beautiful the product is today, it’s almost hard to believe their content management system (CMS) started out looking like this:
Early WordPress Screenshot in the History of Blogging
WordPress got its start in 2003, when college student Matt Mullenweg and his friend, Mike Little, had an idea that blossomed into what would eventually become the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world.
What year was WordPress created? In 2003 by then college students Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
Later that same year, TypePad, another less-technical blogging platform was introduced and continued pushing the boundaries on how to make blogging a more accessible activity for people who didn’t know how to write their own code.
This is also around the time when a lot of today’s top hosting companies started jumping onto the scene and offering what’s gradually evolved into the best web hosting plans for bloggers to choose from even to this day.
2003: Google Buys Blogger and Launches AdSense
The turn of the century was almost here. Adults were worried about an upcoming potential disaster called Y2K (spoiler alert: nothing happened) and kids were catching them all with the latest craze, Pokemon.
In the blogging world, things were humming along smoothly as more blogging platforms started to emerge in the mass market.
Xanga Coming Soon Screenshot in the History of Blogging Optimized
In 1999, LiveJournal and Blogger both scrambled onto the scene, followed by afghanistan phone number resource (formerly a social networking site similar to the better-known MySpace, which wouldn’t emerge for several more years) in the year 2000.
2003: WordPress and TypePad Enter the Scene
Today, over one-third of websites (including my blog here) run on WordPress.
And looking at how beautiful the product is today, it’s almost hard to believe their content management system (CMS) started out looking like this:
Early WordPress Screenshot in the History of Blogging
WordPress got its start in 2003, when college student Matt Mullenweg and his friend, Mike Little, had an idea that blossomed into what would eventually become the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world.
What year was WordPress created? In 2003 by then college students Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.
Later that same year, TypePad, another less-technical blogging platform was introduced and continued pushing the boundaries on how to make blogging a more accessible activity for people who didn’t know how to write their own code.
This is also around the time when a lot of today’s top hosting companies started jumping onto the scene and offering what’s gradually evolved into the best web hosting plans for bloggers to choose from even to this day.
2003: Google Buys Blogger and Launches AdSense