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Articles about internet history and its impact on our culture.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2007
The iPhone and Android both launched in 2007. But it was still a desktop web, with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr keeping people glued to their computer screens.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2006
In 2006, social networks like Facebook and YouTube ramped up, Twitter was born, Amazon invented cloud computing, web geeks obsessed over RSS, and User Generated Content was king.
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Curious About Early Twitter? Discover 5 Key Facts From 2007
Here are five things you might not have known about Twitter in 2007, the year it broke out as a leading social media tool. For starters, it was termed microblogging and the word 'tweet' wasn't yet common.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2004
A look back at web technology in 2004 — when Flickr and Gmail launched, blogging plus RSS was the new social software, Google IPOed, and the first Web 2.0 Conference happened.
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On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business
Thoughts on whether I should've sold ReadWriteWeb when I did, given what happened to the site over the next decade. Do I regret selling?
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005
A look back at internet technology in 2005 — a world before social media, smartphones and the cloud.
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Marc Andreessen in 2004: Adapting to a New Web Era
How Netscape founder Marc Andreessen moved from enterprise software to the emerging social software market over 2004, with a new startup called Ning.
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Comparing Wayback Machine Copies of ReadWriteWeb to Old Screenshots
As I get ready to launch the serialization of my book, I discover that old Wayback Machine copies of ReadWriteWeb aren't always reliable.
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