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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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. 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. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es