Andre kindly pointed out this weblog of Quake news from Blue's News circa July 1996. I've always wondered why Stephen Heaslip deliberately gets written out of some people's history of weblogs, and I can't help but surmise that it must be a concerted effort to slight him, planned and executed by people who are out to get him.
I could be wrong.
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He "wrote small blurbs and linked to news" and kept it to himself. He wasn't "blogging." Had he 1. wrote a blogging tool, 2. went on an incestuous link-whoring spree, and 3. chased down and corrected with religious fervor all the "propaganda machine," he too would've been considered as a "co-father of weblogging." It's easily understandable that the army of Google-armed revisionist blogging historians routinely overlook him, because they can't find him in Google.
In my eyes, someone who wasn't smart enough to coin, or claim post-facto to have coined, any of the term(s): "weblog," "blog," "blogsphere," "blognation," "bloggerrhea," or anything *blog*, doesn't deserve any recognition no matter how long they have been "writing blurbs and linking to websites in a reversed chronological order."
(I hope you're at least a little sarcastic with that comment...)
[I hope so too. ;-) ]
Sarcasm? Me? Never...