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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. But the critical distinction in the direction of both companies was that while MySpace was putting up moats to keep outside companies from innovating and making money off their backs, Facebook took the opposite approach.

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

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And so it goes with social networking. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.