http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7370/dogbloggergh8.jpg
It looks like a dog with a birthday hat, isn't it?
Something special to celebrate? |
Blogger was launched in August 1999 as one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools; it is credited for helping popularize the form.
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012022531/http://blogger.com/ |
yea, i think so. (but i don´t know the exactly date) |
Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999....
http://www.blogger.com/about
i think there is no exactly date -.- |
yeah only blogger beta has that dog right ?
but no info in either blog ro anything |
What's the story behind the dog?
Corsin, that's such a cool link! |
> yeah only blogger beta has that dog right ?
erm, no. blogger.com also. and still i´m not in the blogger beta... (wana screenshot?) |
It's today, Happy Birthday to Blogger!
Checkout Evan's post on Blogger!
http://www.evhead.com/1999/08/we-just-launched-cool-new-tool-at-pyra.asp
"Monday, August 23, 1999"
"We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It's called Blogger. It's an automated weblog publishing tool."
Can't believe they were using ASP back then. |
Nice find. Also check the first two Blogger profiles:
http://blogger.com/profile/1
http://blogger.com/profile/2 |
"Can't believe they were using ASP back then."
Well ASP was the *only* hot thing in '99 --correct ?? |
I think blogger follow chinese zodiac. For your info, 2006 is the year of DOG.
http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/2006.htm |
Didn't know that, myself is a Chinese. lol
I think I have seen that logo before...Some where. |
The dog seems familiar. Really Familiar. |
Yikes.. Jason certainly leads a dawgs life :)_
"Oh, the birthday logo is a dog because of that whole "1 human year = 7 dog year" thing. And there should be more dogs in birthday hats, don'cha think?)" |
yeah and evhead makes it into the blogsOfNote
http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/2006/08/evhead.html |
And look what evhead says:
"Yep, seven years ago, on this day, I wrote on this blog:
We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It's called Blogger. It's an automated weblog publishing tool.
It seemed like a good idea at the time." |
