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"Tim" wrote

I always wondered where the term "blog" came from?


It's (B)ackwards log because the entries are in reverse order.


No, that's incorrect. It's from the term 'weblog', as in web-log. That
they're often seen as cronological had nothing to do with the terminology.


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