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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. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Don’t Stop Believing.