What the Social Web Looked Like in the 1990s

copybrighter.com — An interesting post which compares the current social media climate with life and technology in the 1990s. Before Digg, there was your local newspaper's "Top Stories of the Year" issue. ou used to have to wait until December to find out hottest story of the year. Now there's an infinite stream of uncensored content and entertainment online.. Feb 19, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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badenglishihave Feb 20, 2008

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In the 90's, there was always the back room of your local video rental outlet.

Closed Account Feb 20, 2008

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Cartoon dolls. I remember them well :(

topoisomerase Feb 20, 2008

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agreed! did i ever tell you about the guy that wrote a tool to simultaneously 'finger' five different people? yeah, he called it 'fist'. epic.

gamersdg Feb 20, 2008

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Before Wikipedia there was the book version of the encyclopedia that cost a lot of money and took all day to find what you were looking for.

musiklvr Feb 21, 2008

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i as well utilized the bmg free cds to my advantage. using names like, melanie butterface, chanandler bong, lizzie border, getta overit. ahhh... good times.