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From June 14, 1993, Mosaic Communications Corporation maintained their "What's New"<ref>[http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-new.html What's New!]. Home.mcom.com. Retrieved June 15, 2013.</ref> list of new websites, updated daily and archived monthly. The page was accessible by a special "What's New" button in the Mosaic web browser.
In November 1993 [[Ranjit Bhatnagar]] started writing about interesting sites, pages and discussion groups he found on the internet, as well as some personal information, on his website Moonmilk, arranging them chronologically in a special section called Ranjit’s HTTP Playground.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://moonmilk.com/playground.html |title=Ranjit’s HTTP Playground |date=1998-05-19 |access-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/19980519210345/http://moonmilk.com/playground.html |archive-date=1998-05-19}}</ref> Other early pioneers of blogging, such as [[Justin Hall]], credit him with being an inspiration.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Rosenberg |first=Scott |subject-link= Scott Rosenberg (journalist) |interviewer=Simon Owens |title=Scott Rosenberg Traces the Blogosphere’s Origins |work=Mediashift |date=23 September 2008 |publisher=PBS |quote=For instance, Justin Hall started his site in January 1994, before most of us had heard of the web. I asked him, ‘Well, you’re one of the first bloggers, was there anyone out there who you were getting inspiration from?’ And he pointed me to this other guy named Ranjit Bhatnagar who was keeping a site at moonmilk.com in 1993. And, sure enough, it was a reverse chronological list of stuff he found on the web. |url=http://mediashift.org/2008/09/scott-rosenberg-traces-the-blogospheres-origins266/ |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref>
The earliest instance of a commercial blog was on the first [[business to consumer]] Web site created in 1995 by [[Ty Inc|Ty, Inc.]], which featured a blog in a section called "Online Diary". The entries were maintained by featured [[Beanie Babies]] that were voted for monthly by Web site visitors.<ref name=BeanieBabies>{{cite book|last=Bissonnette|first=Zac|date=March 2015|title=The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute|publisher=Penguin Books|chapter=The $12-per-hour Sociology Major Who Made Ty Warner a Billionaire| pages=107–121|isbn=978-1591846024}}</ref>
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