SOCIAL: It's rather incredible now that something as innocent as posting a few travel notes onto the information superhighway back in the early-1990s could have triggered a sub-sector of the industry (that's both publishing and tourism) which is, in many respects, still trying to find its way. For every gold nugget of a site there are hundreds of rough bits of coal. Read more on Wired.
On this day in 1994, Jeff Greenwald walked into the tourism bureau in Oaxaca, Mexico, and attempted a maddening but ultimately successful feat:
Uploading the first travel blog post ever made on the Internet.
A bit of backstory here.
By early 1993, he'd been a travel journalist for about 10 years, his assignments had taken him far and wide — but despite the thousands of miles I’d covered, I didn’t feel like a real traveler.
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NB:Writing beach image via Shutterstock.