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

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Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. History repeats itself.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Do you really believe that I don’t care about machine time?