Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Hackers and hippies: The origins of social networking

 What happens when hippies meet hackers, counterculture meets cyberculture?

This is an article on the BBC news website about the first social networks.

The first Community Memory terminal, at Leopold's Records, Berkeley, CA, 1973. Photo taken by and for the Community Memory Project, first published in the Resource One Newsletter, April 1974, and originally posted to the web in 1996 by Mark Szpakowski