Bartcop the original liberal blogger has passed away.

[Buzz cook]

81. Depends on who's doing the math

Picking who was the first is relative because of course the concept of a blog post dates Bartcop and the few other early bloggers.

It is my opinion that Bart was the first. Here is why.

I got my first PC with a modem in late 95 and got on the world wide web in January of 96. As most of us do I followed my interests to web sites and forums that catered to those interests, in my case history.

Not long after I started my first of many political arguments.

During that and the many subsequent ones I search all over the net. First I searched for facts that would bolster my arguments. Then at some point I started looking for like minded people.
Almost all the liberal pages on the net at that time were similar to what Steve Kangas had. A set of static articles covering different topics.
Bartcop was the only one that was writing in relative real time about things happening in the news. The closest poster to Bart was Rack Jite who was also a humorist.

So there you go. In 1996 I search the whole internet (might be a slight exaggeration) and Bartcop was the only one with a site that resembles a modern liberal political blog.