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Eugen Rochko

How did web log become blog and not, say, wlog, anyway

14 Dec 2020 at 4:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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Rev.Dr. Nikolai Kingsley

@Gargron

or webl og.

> too close to "weebl", which makes people think of that Stupid Horse that Was Not Amazing.

14 Dec 2020 at 4:48 | Open on dobbs.town
☭Jhey☭
🖨️🦊💻Maddie📚🦊🍵
Andy Lundell 🙄

@gargron Because if you say "Web log" quickly "blog" is in there.

I'm not even sure HOW you would say "wlog".

14 Dec 2020 at 4:49 | Open on octodon.social
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Григорий Клюшников
Christiaan :fedora: :flag_nl:

@Gargron maybe because someone accidentally wrote 'we blog' (instead of 'weblog') somewhere, which got picked up by the Internet and the rest is history?

Also in English the 'w' is pronounced 'double u' which makes 'wlog' harder to pronounce than 'blog' 🤔

14 Dec 2020 at 5:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
John Lenin
emmadavidson

@Gargron you do get to make cute puns about how we blog that won’t work with wlog though

14 Dec 2020 at 7:47 | Open on aus.social
Scully 🍻
@Gargron contact I’ll see if I can find it but Matt Haughey, Evan, and Meg have explained it in the past.
14 Dec 2020 at 12:32 | Open on hackers.town
Scully 🍻
@Gargron oops. It apparently pre-dates Blogger. http://blogs.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/the-word-blog-our-language-legacy/
14 Dec 2020 at 12:34 | Open on hackers.town
Nate Cull

@Gargron Internet wisdom circa 2007 is that it was because Peter Merholz of PeterMe.com

I'm afraid to click that URL in case I get petered

cnet.com/news/blogs-turn-10-wh

14 Dec 2020 at 20:52 | Open on mastodon.social
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