My First Blog - A blog on Blogs
Let me start right away. Ever wondered who first uttered the word ‘blog’? Here’s the story.
Jorn Barger is credited with the first use of the word Web log or Weblog. That was in December 1997. Here’s an archived link to Barger’s Robot Wisdom page then.
It took 15 more months for Peter Merholz to shorten weblog to blog. The oldest page that webarchive could come up with is on April 28, 1999 and is available here
Some interesting links on the subject :
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
http://peterme.com/archives/00000205.html