{"id":875,"date":"2012-06-25T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2012-06-25T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:26:00","slug":"the-roots-of-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/875\/the-roots-of-social-networking","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/257569\/the_roots_of_social_networking.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/social_networking_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Roots of Social Networking Slideshow on PCWorld.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 10th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friendster\" target=\"_blank\">Friendster<\/a>, and the 15th anniversary of the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SixDegrees.com\" target=\"_blank\">SixDegrees.com<\/a>, the first social networking website.<\/p>\n<p>Up now on PCWorld.com is a slideshow (created by yours truly) to celebrate these anniversaries by examining the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/257569\/the_roots_of_social_networking.html\" target=\"_blank\">computerized social networking in the pre-Web era<\/a>.  It covers the usual suspects like Usenet, CompuServe, and BBSes, plus some surprising early services of which you may not have heard.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I&#8217;d like to add that this will be my last slideshow edited by Ed Albro, my long-time PC World editor whom I have worked with since 2008.  It&#8217;s been a pleasure working with Ed, and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 10th anniversary of Friendster, and the 15th anniversary of the launch of SixDegrees.com, the first social networking website. Up now on PCWorld.com is a slideshow (created by yours truly) to celebrate these anniversaries by examining the world of computerized social networking in the pre-Web era. It covers the usual suspects like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,35,21,10],"tags":[83,119,115,88,116,118,90,117,114],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers","tag-anniversaries","tag-bbs","tag-computer-networks","tag-freelance-work","tag-friendster","tag-internet","tag-pc-world","tag-sixdegrees-com","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}