whorleater

>I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging

Didn't blogging start on wordpress/blogger/livejournal?

tnorthcutt

Movable Type preceded WordPress by a couple of years or so, FWIW.

adventured

LiveJournal predated Movable Type by two years.

bmelton

Finger's got them all beat by a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol

Jaruzel
id Software used finger heavily during the 90s with regular .plan updates.

There's an archive of John Carmack's .plan files here:

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive