On this day in 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger which Ev announced on his own blog. As you can see, Blogger was quite the looker back then.
From those humble roots, a bloggerish forest has grown. And a lot of what we continue to build today is informed by the philosophy of the original Pyra team.
For example, the idea of control. One feature of the new beta is the new photo removal tool. Anytime you go to delete a post with a photo, we’ll show you the images associated with that post and ask whether you want to keep or remove them from the web. Handy.
In any case: Happy Birthday, Bloggers! Here’s to 7 more.
(Oh, the birthday logo is a dog because of that whole “1 human year = 7 dog year” thing. And there should be more dogs in birthday hats, don’cha think?)