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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

.&# 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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Twitter is much more.