On 01 Aug 2020, August Abolins said the following...
 
 AA> Only the latter one bothers me.  I always wondered how the heck did the  
 AA> term blog ever arise to represent an online list of posts.  A blog
 AA> sounds like something that one would pick out of their nose!  LOL

It's short for Weblog, which was originally Web Log. Been around a lot longer
than the software which is mostly used for them now (Wordpress). I hand coded
mine originally, then moved to a php based software called Movabletype, then
finally Wordpress.

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