Digital Pamphleteering

Log: a sailor’s “log-book” from the #AgeOfDiscovery (1670s) became a “log”, or a “record of observations, readings” in 1842.

Web: the Old English “webb” meant “woven fabric, woven work, or tapestry”; the #Internet sense is shortened from World Wide Web (1990).

A “web log” is a recorded set of observations on the internet: a #blog.

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Digital Pamphleteering

Log: a sailor’s “log-book” from the Age of Discovery (1670s) became a “log”, or a “record of observations, readings” in 1842. Web: the Old English “webb” meant “woven fabric, woven work, or tapestr…

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