1 IN the beginning, there was the ether.
2 And the NET was without form and void. And bits were scattered upon the universe.
3 And the creator* said, Let there be computers, and there were computers.
4 And the creator saw the light, and it was good: And the creator divided the computers from the time sharing systems.
5 And the creator called the computer PC** and the time sharing systems by their various names. And never the PC and the time sharing systems did talk.
6 And the creator said, let us go down and organize a network, such that the PC can talk to PC and that the PC can talk to the time sharing systems over the ether and over the net, and it was so. And the creator saw that it was good.
7 And the creator called the protocols ethernet and TCP/IP and declared that they should be de facto standards, and it was so.
8 And the users multiplied and filled the earth, their PC's sharing data with each other.
9 But the users were lonely.
10 And the creator said, Is it good for the user to be lonely? It is not good for the user to be lonely.
11 Therefore, let us go down and make an app for the user to talk to user and share information, knowledge, recipes, and tall-tales with each other.
12 And it was so. And the creator called it . . . the blog.

* Bob Metcalfe, Bill Gates, Al Gore, who have you . . .
** This includes the Mac. I prefer the Mac, but early in history the face of the land was overrun with the IBM compatible PC, and the Mac had to dwell in the cavity of a rock, but not any more.