Regarding the blog phenomenon, I remember in 1988 I was using a ancestor of the Internet called BITNET, (BBS dialups were still around then at 2400 bps) mostly an educational network but there were gateways to other networks also, some GOPHER servers came on shortly later in the 80's (short of HTML like, same functionality)
Granted the tools to navigate this mess were not that great, email was there and with the exception of the @ addressing (if i recall correctly) the collaboration tool I had in front of me was tremendous that being email.
As hyperlinking and the internet was used by early adopters, I again remember in the early nineties wondering why would anyone care about graphics on the "net" what we really needed was communication and collaboration tools.
I have been using newgroups and other tools and am trying to get this blog in my mind, one aspect of not having a clear posting thread is interesting! You just navigate around. Another interesting aspect is that not everything is public, only small connected logs are seen by the people that are interested on them. (Some better management is needed in the blogs) BTW all is implemented with of the shelf late 90's technology and we really do need to have 100 settings to choose from which are remnants of the tech people that designed the program, Yes Linux Open Source Developers care about these including myself but the average person does not need to use whois on an IP. Unless some Korena or Chinese person is trying to get through his DSL router (I am spending more time trying to stop that latelly!!!)
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