World's first blog... or world's first slog?

Shane Thacker has coined a whole new term. Yesterday I reported here how Knight's Corner - maintained by yours truly starting in the fall of 1994 - might have been the world's very first real blog. Which would in effect make me the world's first real blogger, if this counts. Shane brings up the point that Knight's Corner, although it had all the functions and features of modern blogging, started out on a BBS (bulletin board system).

So... if it wasn't a weblog ("blog") because the Web wasn't readily available at the time...

...was Knight's Corner really the world's first and only-ever BBSlog, or "slog"?

I think Shane is right: Knight's Corner was definitely a slog. But since it migrated to the web as soon as could be managed (which included the same photo of me by the way) it counts as a very early blog also.

Maybe Knight's Corner was a loglarva, or "logl", that grew into a real blog.

Great new word, Shane. Thanks. We wondered 12 years ago what to call Knight's Corner, and now we have a name for it: "slog" :-)

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