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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. 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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).