Story of Blogger.com

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After many years of neglect, I'm revisiting this experimental personal blog, first started in 2005!  It made me wonder about this history of Blogger.com as a service. Per The Story of Blogger, it was started by a company called Pyra Labs in 1999 and acquired by Google in 2003. Blogger was released to the public as a product in Beta in late 2004.

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