Did you know the blog started life as an online ‘Dear Diary’ where early Internet enthusiasts recorded their deep thoughts or vapid ramblings? Justin’s Links, widely recognized as one of the first blogs ever, was a collection of interesting links that Justin Hall, then a student at Swarthmore College, happened to discover in the early days of the Web — sort of like an early StumbleUpon, which then turned into a personal diary that Hall maintains to this day.
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