Latest update on In our regular rubric Internet Archaeology we talk about various web standards, icons, terms and concepts: how they appeared and took their place firmly in the web culture. Read this article to find out how the word “blog” became widespread and where is it coming from. How the Word "Blog" First Appeared Blogs, as we know them today, have quite a long history. First, resources with personal thoughts and newsfeed in reverse chronological order appeared in the early Usenet and the .PLAN extension from Unix operating system. The modern form of blogging then came up in 1994 when Swarthmore College student Justin Hall created http://www.links.net/ website to share interesting links he found on the web.