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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. Smart people understood that people still wanted to accomplish on the world wide web all of things that we did in the pre-Internet world. Social Networking in Web 2.0. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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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. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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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. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed. Thanks in advance!