I never paid attention to this word before. It sounds so geekish to me, that I’ve never used it for my original blog, and used ‘stories’ word instead (not to confuse with Instagram Stories).
According to the Blog article on Wikipedia, it’s a ‘web log’, which became ‘we blog’.
A blog (a truncation of “weblog”)1 is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger[5] on December 17, 1997. The short form “blog” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in May 1999.[6][7][8] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used “blog” as both a noun and verb (“to blog”, meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”) and devised the term “blogger” in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[9]
Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000). “Weblogs: A History And Perspective”. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2008. ↩︎