The blogging industry is on the verge for over a decade now. It's thriving every single day and becoming more powerful than ever.
But, in this chaos of millions of bloggers, how many of us know about the pioneers who started and paved the roads of blogging?
In our today's list, we're gonna be taking a look at the most influential oldest bloggers of all time.
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List of Top Ten Earliest Bloggers Of All Time
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Justin Hall
Justin Hall is probably one of the most renowned bloggers and is considered the most influential Pioneer of Blogging. Justin is an American journalist and entrepreneur, started his eleven years of personal blogging career in 1994, while he was a student at Swarthmore College. He is without any doubt recognized as one of the very earliest bloggers of Internet History.Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle is probably another earliest blogger of all time. Pournelle was an American Polymath: scientist and researcher. He was a passionate writer in webring as was Justin Hall. Webring is one of the earliest journals of the web, which can be called the “collection of websites.”Steve Gibson
Steven Tiberius Gibson, mostly known as Steve Gibson is another pioneer of blogging. He is an American software engineer and a web security researcher. He started personal blogging in the early Nineties, in a journal named Quakehoilo ( now Shacknews).In the late ’90s, Steve Gibson was hired as a full-time blogger on February 8, 1997, by Ritual Entertainment. That made him probably the first hired blogger in blogging's history.
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is considered as one of the earliest pioneers of web syndication techniques and also considered as one of the fathers of “Blogging.” He made one of the earliest entries into the blogging evolution, not as only a blogger himself, also creating spaces and opportunities for others to become a blogger.Though during his time, he had never used the term “blog” or “blogging”; neither ever claimed. He was the editor of Scripting News and its claim that his site has bootstrapped the blogging revolution and it is still one of the longest-running webs logs on the Internet.
Jorn Barger
Jorn Barger is an American blogger, mostly known as Editor Of Robot Wisdom- one of the earliest influential “weblog.” He has also coined the term “Weblog” on 17 December 1997. During that time, he has described the term as the process of Logging onto The Web. Jorn Barger has written on James Joyce and Artificial Intelligence.Evan Williams
Evan Williams isn’t just a pioneer of blogging, but also one of the pioneers of the internet in any aspect! Many know him as the chairman and CEO of Twitter, Or Founder of Blogger, Medium- two of the largest and most notable blogging platforms.The short form of “Blog” was coined by Evan Williams. The term which we are talking about in this article- “Blogger”- also came from him. He used “Blog” as both noun and verb at the same time meaning to edit someone’s weblog or to post in someone’s weblog, and devised the term with Pyra Labs product Blogger, also leading to the popularization.
Jerome Armstrong
Jerome Armstrong is one of the earliest Political bloggers, as he founded MyDD in 2001. Jerome is considered as one of the “Blog fathers.” Armstrong has co-founded Vox media in 2005, which is the holder of several leading online magazines. In his blog named MyDD, he used to write about American Politics, which made him one of the earliest political bloggers.Mickey Kaus
Mickey Kaus is an American political blogger and journalist. He started his personal blogging in the early 2000s. He is mostly known for his Kaursfile blog which was featured in many popular journals during 2008–2012. He is not among one of the earliest lists but surely is on one of the most prominent blogger’s lists.Duncan Bowen Black
Duncan Bowen Black is better known by his pseudonym Atrios, who is an American blogger. He is currently living in Philadelphia. Black started his online political life in Salon magazine’s Tabletalk messageboards under the nom de plume Kurt Foster, at that point started blogging as Atrios, staying pseudonymous for quite a long while, and in any event, kidding that he was really a secondary school rec center instructor.As per Black, the name “Atrios” is really an (incorrectly spelled) reference to a character named Antrios in the Yasmina Reza play ‘Workmanship’ who paints the play’s key “white painting on a white canvas”.
Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen is an Ameican futurist blogger. He writes about the future of our planet and emphasizes the questions to the sustainably. He started his blogging career in 2003, by writing in World Changing. Later he had become the editor of this journal.He underlines the significance of envisioning convincing, positive potential prospects: “It’s truly evident that we can’t fabricate what we can’t imagine,… The way that we haven’t compellingly envisioned a flourishing, dynamic, supportable world is a significant explanation we don’t effectively live in one.”
