Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | 1974-12-16

Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and entrepreneur, best known as a pioneer blogger. Born in Chicago, Hall graduated Francis W. Parker High School in 1993. In 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, Justin started his web-based diary Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web. Over time, the site came to focus on Hall's life in intimate detail. In December 2004, The New York Times Magazine referred to him as "the founding father of personal blogging." Description above from the Wikipedia article Justin Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.