2012: Medium is Founded In 2012, while

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2012: Medium is Founded
In 2012, while you were learning the dance to Gangnam Style, Medium was launching.

Medium Launch Homepage in the History of Blogging
This online publishing platform (that now has some paywalled content), was wide open to afghanistan phone number material for the first few years of its life. There are both professional and amateur writers publishing their blog posts on Medium, and similar to BuzzFeed and HuffPo, it tends to blur the line between news and opinion.

Medium gave yet another outlet to social journalists who wanted to make their mark, find a target audience online and grow their communities.

2016: WordPress Launches the .blog Domain
Blogging had become so popular by 2016, that WordPress decided to add the domain extension .blog to its list of possible blog URLs.

This meant that in addition to the original six (at the time) domain extensions in popular use, which included .com, .net, and .org, people and organizations could now choose a domain name with the .blog extension.

This move opened up many new domain options and highlighted the popularity of blogging.

2024: There are Over 31.7 Million Bloggers in the U.S. Alone
The history of blogging will never be over… and even better, you can still become a part of it (along with 31.7 Million+ other bloggers in the U.S. alone).

Whether you’re brand new at blogging or you’ve been trying your hand at it for a while and just haven’t quite gotten to where you want to be, I’ve compiled my ultimate guide to starting a blog as a completely free resource that’ll help achieve your goals when it comes to making money with your blog this year—whether from landing some paid blogging jobs or by selling your own products (like writing an eBook, creating your own blogging courses or selling blogging books to an audience eager to learn your craft).