The History of Social Media - Episode 324
Unprofessional Engineering
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The Precursor to Social Media
Talkomatic was created by Dave Woolley and Taka Brown, talk to you. Farm Talk was also created then by the staff at the computer-based education research laboratory at the University of Illinois. Pluto Notes was created by the same 17-year-old as well. Usenet allowed for posting of news information or articles to a news group. This was essentially the precursor to my favorite thing in the world, which is an RSS feed.
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