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1994 Social Media Site Restoration

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 30 2014, @01:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the Vive-le-Minitel dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Amsterdam had social media in 1994, back before normal people in most places even knew the Internet existed. It grew to 400,000 users before being privatized and thus killed. Now there is an effort to recover and preserve it.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Dunbal on Sunday March 30 2014, @02:14PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday March 30 2014, @02:14PM (#23156)

    I also had Mirabilis ICQ... Facebook invented social media as much as Apple invented the tablet.

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  • (Score: 1) by daver!west!fmc on Sunday March 30 2014, @04:00PM

    by daver!west!fmc (1391) on Sunday March 30 2014, @04:00PM (#23176)

    Some of us had e-mail, and later Usenet news too.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:31PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Sunday March 30 2014, @06:31PM (#23228)

    The tablet computer was probably invented in the 1960s, by Arthur C. Clarke (also the inventor of the geosynchronous satellite). It make an appearance in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey".

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30 2014, @10:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30 2014, @10:49PM (#23331)

      Star Trek:TOS premiered in 1966. They had handheld thingies before the 1968 release of Kubrick's movie.

      -- gewg_