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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. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet.

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

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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. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! And now they want to revolutionize email.