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00:00:52] MARK: Sure. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. MARK] I started comp sci. MARK] The thing is, it was 1991 and it was a terrible recession. I grew up in Northern California.

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.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking goes Real Time. Social Networking in Web 1.0. We all wanted intros.

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And so it goes with social networking. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

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