Proto-bloggers founded the United States of America:
Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests. A lounger in book stores, breakfasting parties for the purpose of literary conversation, and long attic evenings, are as yet little known in this country. Our companies are generally mixed, and conversation in them is a medley of ideas upon all subjects. They begin as in England with the weather — soon run into politics — now and then diverge into literature — and commonly conclude with facts relative to commerce, manufactures and agriculture, and the best means of acquiring and improving an estate. Men, who are philosophers or poets, without other pursuits, had better end their days in an old country.
(Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia, Apr. 16, 1790, in a letter to a Quaker friend in London)
Today, literary persons in an old country write books.
