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Pyra Labs launched a program called “Blogspot” in 1999 that would let people run their own blogs. The program was bought by Google in 2003, and changed to Blogger in 2006.

What is most interesting about this tidbit will be that I don’t mention it in the Podcast. It was brought to my attention after the weekend recordings were made. Nonetheless, it is what brought us to a Social Network world of today and needed to be talked about.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 23

• IBM New logo
• Yahoo buys Alibaba.com
• First professional auction of Atari Memorabilia.

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