AOL Journals - some history

Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:05:00 -0400
/technology

Washington Post piece on AOL’s plans to bring blogging to their masses.

AOL will give members three ways to update their blogs — through an online template with blank boxes for text input, through AOL’s instant-messaging system or by telephone. The phone option will be available only to subscribers to the extra-cost “AOL by Phone” service, who will be able to leave voice messages that will be posted as MP3 sound files.

The blogosphere is self-filtering and so should only be strengthened by more participants, but many probably expected Usenet to handle a similar influx without problems 10 years ago. It did not.