Blogger is a blog-publishing service launched by Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, and it was one of the first widely used tools for creating weblogs. Users could post to their own website from a simple web form without needing to know HTML or run a server, which helped popularize blogging among ordinary people. Google acquired Pyra in 2003, and Blogger was later integrated with Google accounts, hosted on the blogspot domain. Evan Williams left Google after the acquisition and later co-founded Twitter. Although newer social platforms drew away much of its audience, Blogger has remained active, and its simplicity made it influential in the early history of the web.
Before and after
- from 30 July 1999 to 27 September 1999Batken Conflict
- from 2 August 1999 to 14 September 1999War of Dagestan
- 11 August 1999Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999
- 17 August 19991999 İzmit earthquake
- 23 August 1999Release of Blogger
- from 26 August 1999 to 16 April 2009Second Chechen War
- 31 August 1999Construction of Petronas Towers
- 7 September 1999Discovery of 118401 LINEAR
- 9 September 1999Founding of African Union
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.