The first 25 weblogs

Scroll down for the list, in reverse chronological order. I know it depends somewhat on how you define a weblog, but some of the old-schoolers find the list fairly accurate. (Single Planet)

It is astonishing that while, by this count, there were only twenty-five weblogs by March, 1999, by a scant eight months later when Follow me Here was born in November 1999 it was the 8.570th weblog created just counting the ones using the Blogger tool (the only way I have to rank myself). That was when weblogs like mine had to have a small sidebar explanation of what a weblog was, and when references to weblogs and weblogging in the mainstream media were so exceptional, arising once every few months, that most weblogs linked excitedly to each one.