Many people new to the Internet come across all this talk about blogs, blogging and blogger name calling and wonder what in the world has happened?

It’s a totally new language to them until they understand the basics of where the word originates.

English is a language based on Latin origins and from this it has the capability to be expanded to include new meanings to old activities. The word “Blog” is a shortened version of two words; ‘Web’ and ‘log’. The web part is pretty obvious as it comes from the World Wide Web but where does ‘log’ come into the equation?

A BRIEF BLOG HISTORY:

Back in days-long-gone, people often used to keep a log of their activities on a farm or on a ship. A log is a record of events that occurred in or at a certain time. These logs got extended and evolved into journals. Many well-to-do people who could afford the time, paper and had the education, used to keep a journal of their daily activities.

The reason most of these journal keepers were able to record their activities is simply because they were the ones with the education. The mass-population at the time didn’t have the education to read or write even if they had the time to do it or the money to pay for the paper or book in which to write.  Education was once a luxury that could only be afforded by the very rich and was not available to all as it is today.

Without getting technical here is what a blog really is: It is the shortened version of these two words, made from the last letter of the first word combined with the last word. There is a bit more to it based on the design of the cascading style sheet along with other pre-formatted web site designing made especially for the search engines bots to read easily.

ALL A BLOGGER NEEDS TO KNOW:

But as a blogger you don’t need to know more than this because all this hard-techie stuff has already been done for you. Blogger.com and WordPress  (among many others) have already invented the tools for you to use as a blogger.

A blogger is someone who writes on their blog every day the same as a journal keeper of years ago used to write in their journal or a diary keeper used to write in their diary.

But today because we have a new technology using a new medium, we have a new name for the actual activity. That is all a blogger does is to keep a journal, a log, a diary of their daily activities.

Knowing how to become a blogger today is a lot easier than journal keeping was years ago. Today we are able to read and write and we use binary code instead of paper. You don’t have to understand what it is or how it works. As a blogger all you need to know is how to read and write and how to use the free tools that are so readily available everywhere that you have computer access.