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what if in like the 90s-00s a bunch of municipal libraries offered a small amount of web hosting as a service you could access with your library card and each library had like a server closet and a guy working to administer the service as a public service and the software all those guys came up with was what had evolved into social media instead

I mean this is basically how the 80s-90s internet started through universities

And I mean, the social media end result of university internet with high-speed connections everywhere was Facebook

indeed, if instead of the hypothetical situation I suggested, things had happened the same way that it actually happened, then the outcomes would have been the same

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Imagine if Goodreads had invented the ability to see if the cutie reading Henry James over there was single and to “poke” her, tho

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