Who came up with the term?

In 1997 Jorn Barger—an American whose blogs vary from essays on artificial intelligence to James Joyce—came up with the term ‘web log’ when he began logging a daily list of links to websites he had visited. ‘Web log’ was shortened to ‘blog’ by Peter Merholz, a prolific blogger himself, in 1999. However, blogs were in existence before they were given these names. Justin Hall is seen as a pioneer—he began back in 1994 while an intern at Wired magazine. He posted just shy of 5,000 pages worth of entries in 11 years before throwing in the towel.