Remember "social software"? By 2003, the internet had weathered the worst of the dot-com crash and developers and entrepreneurs were beginning to come out of hibernation. While it would take another year for Silicon Valley to start inflating another bubble — this one would be named "Web 2.0" — there was a renewed sense of optimism. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2003/ #InternetHistory
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@ricmac I still remember looking at Adsense, which had terrible ad rates, thinking that it would only ever cater for the amateur, while we professionals had “real” ad networks that were scrutinized with better rates. Sad to see that #Google is the dominant model now, with shitty ad rates everywhere and no guarantees of quality (not to mention surveillance).
@ricmac That bubble stil ongoing, as social features still being injected into sites where they were not present, as happening with imgur
