Pyra Labs
San Francisco, CA , | |
| Owner | |
|---|---|
| Products | Blogger |
| URL | pyra |
| Current status | Offline, February 17, 2003 |
Pyra Labs is a subsidiary of Google (Alphabet) that created the Blogger service in 1999. Google acquired Pyra Labs in 2003.[1]
History
Pyra was co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list. Their coder Jack Dorsey altered an ftp program to work on a webpage, enabling online users to upload to a webpage web-log. In 1999, while still in beta, the rudiments of Pyra were repurposed into an in-house tool which became Blogger. The service was made available to the public in August 1999. Much of this coding was done by Paul Bausch and Matthew Haughey.[2]
Initially, Blogger was completely free of charge and there was no
In 2002, Blogger was completely re-written to license it to other companies, the first of which was
On February 17, 2003, Pyra was acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.[1]
References
- ^ a b McIntosh, Neil (2003-02-18). "Google buys Blogger web service". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ISBN 978-0307451361.
- ^ Kahney, Leander (2001-01-04). "Dot-Com Begs for Bucks". Wired. Retrieved 2012-04-12.