A blog, short for weblog, is a website of frequently updated, date-based, chronologically ordered entries, often described as an online journal. When a new post is added, the existing posts are shifted down and older posts are archived.
The first (hand coded) blogs were literally link-driven logs of websites, with commentary and/or personal asides. They essentially filtered the web for readers, hence the term weblog. Created by web enthusiasts/programmers who linked to cool stuff they found on the web, bloggers began adding commentary, posting daily, and reading one another's blogs. A community culture developed.
As content management systems like Movable Type were developed, it allowed "non-techies" to blog. The focus then moved from filter-style weblogs to journal-style blogs.
Blogs can include text, images, a compilations of links, or any combination thereof
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