A brief Histroy of Bangla Blogging...At the very begining (1)

Where and how do I begin? Although the titel itself claims to be something accademic, I'm follwing only my personal observations and experiences, being one of the oldest bloggers of the Bangla Blogsphere. Before the opportunity of writing Bangla in unicode fonts came, there was actually no chance to develop a blog in Bangla. As far as I know unicode Bangla first appeared in 2004. At that time couple of bloggers with high motivation and enthusiasm began to maintain their Bangla Blog in Blogspot or Wordpress with the help of Unicode Bangla. The first ever Bangla Blogging platform http://somewhereinblog.net came in december 2005. For the first time in history they made the glorious opportunity to write Bangla either with Bijoy or Phonetic or with the help of virtual keyboard directly. Birth of http://somewhereinblog.net was somewhat a revolution for using Bangla in the virtual world. From december 2005 to June 2007 (approximately) they had almost the absolute monoply in Bangla Blogsphere. This platform developed the first blogging community in Bangla, who can be considered as the poineers of Bangla Blogging.

I personaly stuck into it on the third day of january 2006. I enrolled myself on 31 January 2006. At that time there were hardly 40 or 50 bloggers active. Some of them used to engage themselves fully with literaure and the rest were interested in current politics and polemics. Although I was in the first group, the clashes representing the historical and contemporary politics, culture and society forced me to got engaged with. The blog-conflicts of january-february and march 2006, made the first polarization in blog community.

(to be continued ;) )