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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. Don’t Stop Believing. It was mostly timing.