Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Ten Years of the Internet

The Belfast Telegraph has an nifty timeline of the last ten years of the Internet. More or less straighforward except for one, interesting error:

2004: YEAR OF THE BLOG

Although the term “weblog” was coined in 1997, 2004 is the year the blog achieves critical mass. Salam Pax, the “Baghdad blogger”, becomes popular during the Iraq war, while in the US, Fox news anchor Dan Rather resigns after bloggers discredit one of his stories. [emphasis mine]

Funny, I seem to recall that Dan Rather worked for CBS. Honest mistake, or gratuitous swipe at Fox? You be the judge.

Posted by Matt on 08/10 at 08:42 AM
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