Tomorrow’s Tech Treepowered by Astra

Social Media & Online Communities · Recorded milestone

Blogging platforms

Recorded year1999

Pyra Labs' Blogger and LiveJournal make it easy for anyone to publish a diary-style website and gather readers.

Explore this milestone on the interactive map

Built on

World Wide WebRecorded · 1991enables
Graphical web browserRecorded · 1993enables

Led to

MarkdownRecorded · 2004enables
Paid influencer postsRecorded · 2006enables
Paid newslettersRecorded · 2017enables

Sources & evidence

Additional source

Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.