I admit it. I was and always will be a Suck fanboy. I even bought the damn book! Those detestable forays into "really X invented Y" (e.g. Lou Reed really invented rapping)? Here comes one.
Suck really invented blogging. Not the technology per se but the attitude, many of the literary conventions, and the current reigning visual design ethos. Routinely updated? Yup. Oblique use of links as both citation and commentary? Yup. Snarky, personal point of view? Yup. Web friendly writing style? Yup. No subject out of bounds? Yup. 3 column layout, with thin content column? Yup. Unique link for each days content? Yup.
Suck wasn't a "blog" but it definitely was "blogging".
Don't believe me? Revisit some old classics like Dig We Must, News above the Title, and just about anything by Ann O' Tate.
For a recap in broadband, dive into Matt Sharkey's history of Suck, entitled "The Big Fish" which conveniently concides with the upcoming tenth anniversary of Suck's first post.