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It looks like a dog with a birthday hat, isn't it?
Something special to celebrate?
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Blogger was launched in August 1999 as one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools; it is credited for helping popularize the form.
web.archive.org/web/1999101202 ...
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yea, i think so. (but i don´t know the exactly date)
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Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999....
blogger.com/about
i think there is no exactly date -.-
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yeah only blogger beta has that dog right ?
but no info in either blog ro anything
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What's the story behind the dog?
Corsin, that's such a cool link!
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> yeah only blogger beta has that dog right ?
erm, no. blogger.com also. and still i´m not in the blogger beta... (wana screenshot?)
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It's today, Happy Birthday to Blogger!
Checkout Evan's post on Blogger!
evhead.com/1999/08/we-just-lau ...
"Monday, August 23, 1999"
"We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It's called Blogger. It's an automated weblog publishing tool."
Can't believe they were using ASP back then.
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Nice find. Also check the first two Blogger profiles:
blogger.com/profile/1
blogger.com/profile/2
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"Can't believe they were using ASP back then."
Well ASP was the *only* hot thing in '99 --correct ??
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I think blogger follow chinese zodiac. For your info, 2006 is the year of DOG.
chineseastrologyonline.com/200 ...
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Didn't know that, myself is a Chinese. lol
I think I have seen that logo before...Some where.
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The dog seems familiar. Really Familiar.
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Hmm, it's not this dog...
wtewebservices.com/images/news ...
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Yikes.. Jason certainly leads a dawgs life :)_
"Oh, the birthday logo is a dog because of that whole "1 human year = 7 dog year" thing. And there should be more dogs in birthday hats, don'cha think?)"
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yeah and evhead makes it into the blogsOfNote
blogsofnote.blogspot.com/2006/ ...
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And look what evhead says:
"Yep, seven years ago, on this day, I wrote on this blog:
We just launched a cool new tool at Pyra. It's called Blogger. It's an automated weblog publishing tool.
It seemed like a good idea at the time."
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