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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. On my side, the time and money wasted with the idea to educate people is immense. Sad but true.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Don’t Stop Believing.