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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. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. It was at that moment that a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg completely schooled the 75-year-old Rupert Murdoch.

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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.