Oh, The Welcome to the Internet History Podcast. I'm your host Brian McCullough. On the Internet it's sometimes difficult to say what the first of anything is.

This is especially true of blogging.

What was the first blog?

Well, to figure that out, it would require you to parse

the exact moment in time when having a personal home page morphed into having a personal blog.

But a lot of people like to give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then, I don't know, spiritually at least, being the first

blogger.

Since early 1994, first is Justin's home page and at various points as Justin's links from the underground

and links dot net. Justin Hall has been writing online and sharing online, especially sharing himself online, longer than almost anyone else on the planet.

In this episode, Justin shares... on the planet.

In this episode, Justin shares with us the evolving, almost 25-year journey of his blog slash website and shares some amazing background stories of the

beginnings of Hot Wired but also the very interesting and I think important story of his own experience sharing his life online.

We use terms in this episode like Patient Zero or Pioneer.

But I think it's true in this case.

In our modern world where all of us share everything all of the time.

Justin Hall has been one of the first ones into this breach,

for better and for worse.

And as you'll hear at the end of this episode, I suspect that his experience and

his example might have something to teach all of us about sharing online. So please enjoy this conversation with the first blogger

Justin Hall and check out his free documentary about his experience called Overshare,

the Links.net story.

Justin Hall, thanks for coming on the Internet History Podcast.

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