1999
It’s worth noting that its success might have prevented the common term “incel” from coming about.
Wasn’t Incel originally coined by a blogger in the 80s?
No. Web was published in 1991. Web 2.0 happened much later.
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger[13] on 17 December 1997— log in this case nods to a ship’s log, a written record of a ship’s navigation and speed read from rope knots off a special weighed tool called a chip log.[14][page needed] The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[15][16][17]
Bloggers are a post-2000 thing.
I really have no idea, but “blogger in the 80s” is kind of hilarious. The coining of a term can be hard to pin down, but it also matters a lot less than when it takes off. Looking at this ngram I think we can place the rise, when most people would become aware of it, in the early 2010s.
