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In online diaries people write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, often allowing others to contribute through comments or community posting. The first webpage in an online-diary format may be Claudio Pinhanez's "Open Diary", started on November 14th 1994 at the MIT Media Laboratory website and remain receiving entries until 1996 (a copy of his "open diary" is still in existence). Another important date is April 19th, 1995 , when ''The Semi-Existence of Bryon'' was announced in the USENET newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.announce. Online diaries soon caught the attention of the media with publication of the book 24 Hours in Cyberspace which captured personal profiles of the people involved in early web pages.

Online diaries are integrated into the daily lives of many teenagers and college students, with communications between friends playing out over their blogs. Even fights may be posted in the diaries, with not-so-veiled insults of each other easily readable by all their friends, enemies, and complete strangers.

Personal opinions on experiences and hobbies are very common in the blog world. Blogs have given the opportunity for people to express their views to a mass audience.


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