Reblogging
You might remember it as reblog chain
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2007·Early YouTube
Reposting somebody else’s post to your own followers with its source still attached. On Twitter it is called retweeting.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- reblog
- Spread in
- 2007
- Format
- Post
- Made by
- A team led by Jonah Peretti built an open-source tool called Reblog for blogs; Tumblr built the idea into its network in 2007
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Reposting an item onto your own blog with the original chain attached and room to add to it. The mechanic Tumblr made central, and the reason a Tumblr post reads as a conversation between people who have never met.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Tumblr launches with reblogging built in.1
- Made
Twitter users begin repeating each other’s posts by hand. One calls it an “echo”.1
- Later
Twitter adds a retweet button, replacing the typed “RT @username”.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- Chris Wetherell, credited with building the retweet for Twitter, later said the feature might have “handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon”.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
More from 2007You were there
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things