Review the Etymology of Today's Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Day: Weblog
You can take a look at the OED entry here.
The first use of weblog listed in the OED was by Jorn Barger in a 1997 post appearing on alt.culture.www, alt.hypertext, and comp.ai.
Here’s Barger’s actual post from December 23, 1997.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.