blog.species5618.net » Social Networks http://blog.species5618.net The time has come to VENT my anger on the world Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Social Networks are not a NEW thing http://blog.species5618.net/2009/09/08/social-networks-are-not-a-new-thing/ http://blog.species5618.net/2009/09/08/social-networks-are-not-a-new-thing/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:33:42 +0000 Species5618 http://blog.species5618.net/2009/09/08/social-networks-are-not-a-new-thing/ Social networks are not NEW,

They have just gained a wider audiance due to improvod usability.

USENET or news groups started in 1979 (long before HTTP), where like minded individuals could gather and exchange puclic messages, very much like twitter today.

The big difference, it was mainly a hardcore GEEK world.

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