Blogs

In 1999 blog hosting services such as Blogger and LiveJournal made hosting, establishing, writing, and producing a blog, short for weblog—a chronological date and/or time-stamped web log, or diary—simple for people wanting to share online content like photos and narrative who lacked the skills to do so. Deciding who the first food blogger was is difficult. While David Seigal logged every lunch as early as 1996 at http://web.archive.org/web/19980117134932/http://dsiegel.com/diary/index.html, the first proto-food blog was established by Mike Simons of Tuscon, Arizona. His “flog” (food log) http://www.glassbird.com/scd/flog.html began in 1997 and ran until late 2009.