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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: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday March 30 2014, @05:15PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday March 30 2014, @05:15PM (#23203) Homepage
    I think one reason why a lot of the nerdy types I know (such as me and my g/f) aren't into the "modern internet" that this is being compared to is that there really is nothing new about the modern internet.

    I remember inventing social media in 1993, when I created my CGI-driven "virtual pub fight" webpage. And even that was just ripping off stuff that had been done before (e.g. the ubiquitous* guestbooks).

    The internet was invented for the easy exchange of information. The infrastructure was inventive - all payloads are just payloads.

    [* ubiquitous to internet users at the time - the internet's expanded my many orders of magnitude since then.]
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