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# The man who coined the word "blog" has been blogging for 20 years
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/05/the-man-who-coined-the-word-blog-has-been-blogging-for-20-years/
- Published: 2018-05-15T20:50:54.000Z
- Updated: 2018-05-15T20:51:46.000Z
- Description: Peter Merholtz, who first split "weblog" into "we blog", has been at the blogface for two decades.
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogs, Blogging

When I started blogging back in 2001, I felt really late to the game. Launching [this blog in 2003](https://onemanandhisblog.com/2018/03/15-years-of-one-man-and-his-blog/) felt almost laughably laggardly. And yet now I read that that blog of the man *who coined the term blog* is [less than five years older than mine](https://www.peterme.com/2018/05/03/20-years-ago-yesterday-i-launched-peterme-com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> May 2, 1998 proved to be a momentous day for me. I launched [https://peterme.com/](https://peterme.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), with [a post about my experiences at CHI 98](https://peterme.com/index050298.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). That very original page doesn’t exist anymore (I overwrote it to update the navigation on the left-hand side), but the content is there in its full glory.

His perspective of the importance of the blog to his life is resonant, too:

> Apart from meeting my wife, having kids, and starting Adaptive Path, there is probably no experience more impactful in my life than that fateful day I created my personal home page.

My entire career and income for the past 11-and-change years is purely down to my decision to start this blog.