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2004: “Blog” Becomes the Word of the Year
Every year since 2003, Merriam-Webster has published a list of words that seem particularly relevant to the year in question. Recent words of the year lately have included “justice,” “feminism,” and “surreal.”

In 2004, however, the most looked-up word of the year on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary was “blog.”

Blog is the Word of the Year 2004 on Merriam Webster-pichi@1x
This is significant, because it showed how much blogging was impacting the mainstream world.

Rather than automatically tuning in to news stations or opening a newspaper, Americans were beginning to turn to their favorite blogs for the content (and even news updates) they were craving.

As we all know now, this has ended in pretty mixed results. A lot of important news that doesn’t make it to the mainstream outlets can be distributed through blogs (and on Twitter), but so can a lot of fake and potentially damaging, misleading news.

2005: Vlogging Happened (YouTube Launches)