In February 2002, Heather Armstrong lost her job because she wrote about her co-workers on her personal blog, dooce.com. As a result, "dooced" has become a term that means "fired for blogging."
April 2002: TheMommyBlog.com was founded
In April 2002, Melinda Roberts founded TheMommyBlog.com, one of the first blogs dedicated to parenting and family life, which would inspire more than 3.9 million other parenting blogs over the next decade .
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The Gizmodo blog was also launched in July 2002. Gizmodo hit post focuses on technology, which is another popular type of blog .
Blogads, the first blog advertising broker, launched in August 2002. This enabled many bloggers to turn their hobby into their main source of income.
Blogads 2002
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Less than a year later, Google launched a competing platform called AdSense .
November 2002: The blog search engine Technorati is launched
In November 2002, Technorati launched a search engine for bloggers, allowing blog readers to easily find useful content. In 2008, Technorati also launched an advertising network.