How Blogger Begat the Push-Button Publishing Revolution

At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Blogger happened.
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At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button publishing to the people. It was a revolutionary web product made by a revolutionary web of people who went on to build much of the modern net. Here’s how Pyra propagated.

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