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The early days of the World Wide Web saw a proliferation of personal home pages, sites put up by individuals for no other reason than to share their lives with other people over the Internet. Putting up a page in the early 1990s was not easy. Because it required knowing how to write a web page in HTML and how to use complicated software to transfer files to web servers, pages were usually created by those who were computer-savvy. Around 2001, a variety of sites (blogger.com and diaryland.com, among others) created easy-to-use software for people to post simple websites, known as blogs, short for web logs. These sites typically are intensely personal in nature and are updated frequently with likes, dislikes, and random thoughts. The worst are tediously boring: I had a sandwich for lunch today. But the ability to have an intimate look into people's lives and thoughts will always fascinate.
The presentation of self aspects on personal home pages have mostly been taken over by social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, which allow anyone with access to a computer to put a page, populate it with pictures, words, and videos, and then create social networks of friends and acquaintances.
See Also
- Poetry
- Homepages
- Programs and Programming Languages
