In the early days of the Internet, the big thing was to get a web server up and starting a blog (stands for binary log, I believe), filling the bit bucket with whatever was rattling in their heads. Then people began to build blog services, so you won’t have to build one from scratch (which was not a simple process in those days).
So more people took up blogging, and new companies popped up to offer such services. The internet was filling with the thoughts of random people from all over everywhere. What was once the realm of nerds and the early generation gamers became flush with people of all sorts of interests (or schemes).
The ‘blogger’ species has been replaced by “social media”, so one no longer has to update a web page to dump their latest contribution to the Internet world – just use the services and apps available, never mind that every third item in the endless scroll down in an advertisement. You can ignore them, as I do. Or you end up on a social media platform with a content to garbage ratio which is overwhelmingly tilted in the less desirable direction.
Of course, one of the benefits of the way of the ancients is being able to easily edit or remove a posting. Take it out of your website blog, and it is gone, not just resting in a database with a ‘deleted’ flag set. Now if you are blogging on a website, you might have an issue with service level backups of things you would prefer to vanish into the Great Bit Bucket In The Sky.
The Days of King Blog are over, that is what everybody says.
Whatever.
Shouter to Dead Parrots 