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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.