A blog (a contraction of "web log") is a type of online diary software. Blog sites make it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease. People write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, fulfilling to a certain extent Tim Berners-Lee's original view of the World Wide Web as a collaborative medium. As of 2001, possibly due to the introduction of broadband Internet making self-hosted sites easier, the popularity of blogs increased dramatically.
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