June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived What's New list of sites.
June 1993: Netscape begins running it's What's New! list of sites.
Jan 1994: Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net.
April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release Frontier, Manila and Radio Userland, all website and blog content software.
Sept 1997: Slashdot launches their news for nerds.
Dec 1997: Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.”
Nov 1998: Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on Camworld.
Early 1999: Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.
April 1999: Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.”
July 1999: Metafilter's earliest archives.
July 1999: Pitas launches the first free build your own blog web tool.
August 1999: Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.
Jan 2000: Boing Boing is born.
July 2000: AndrewSullivan.com launches.
Feb 2002: Heather Armstrong is fired for discussing her job on her blog, Dooce. “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.”
Aug 2002: Nick Denton launches Gizmodo, the first in what will become a blog empire. Blogads launches, the first broker of blog advertising.
Dec 2002: Talking Points Memo highlights Trent Lott’s racially charged comments; thirteen days later, Lott resigns from his post as Senate majority leader.
Dec 2002: Gawker launches, igniting the gossip-blog boom.
March 2003: “Salam Pax,” an anonymous Iraqi blogger, gains worldwide audience during the Iraq war.
June 2003: Google launches AdSense, matching ads to blog content.
Aug 2003: The first avalanche of ads on political blogs.
Sept 2003: Jason Calacanis founds Weblogs, Inc., which eventually grows into a portfolio of 85 blogs.
Jan 2004: Denton launches Wonkette.
March 2004: Calacanis poaches Gizmodo writer Peter Rojas from Denton. Denton proclaims himself “royally shafted” on his personal blog.
Dec 2004: Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “Word of the Year.”
Jan 2005: Study finds that 32 million Americans read blogs.
May 2005: The Huffington Post launches.
Oct 2005: Calacanis sells his blogs to AOL for $25 million.
Dec 2005: An estimated $100 million worth of blog ads are sold this year.
Jan 2006: Time leases Andrew Sullivan’s blog, adding it to its Website.
Feb 2006: The Huffington Post surges to become fourth most-linked-to blog.