September 2003
From Bulletin Boards to Blogs
Online communities thrived long before the advent of Web logs.
By David Rapp
Web logs, or "blogs"-easy-to-update personal online journals-have swept the country in recent years. A popular blog application, Blogger, owned by Mountain View, CA-based Google, has more than a million registered users. But the blog isn't the first online community; that was created a quarter-century ago.
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