Day 49
3/31/2006
Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously
and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
--Ghostbusters
Pony express begins April, 1860. Fifteen days later, the first "Dear John" letter is delivered.
Justin Hall starts first blog in 1993. First site with complete sentences
and properly spelled words posts in 1995. Peter Merholz creates term "web log" then lazily
shortens it to "blog" in 1999. The number of made-up words containing the letters
"b-l-o-g" exceeds 250 by 2002, the same year that Heather Armstrong gets
"dooced"
for comments made in her blog about her bosses. Two years later, the
persons assigned to run company-sponsored (and controlled) blogs hits 4,000.
Sites focusing on blog literary criticism today: one.
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